Importance of social capital in coping with and benefiting from new economic conditions

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 222-239

  Eraydin, Ayda ^a   Armatli Köroǧlu, Bilge ^b   Uzun, Nil ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Economic restructuring; zmir; Income disparities; Ordinal regression; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858700931     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2011.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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