Listar por autor "Rungo, Paolo"
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A Note on the Concavity of the Happiness Function in Family Support
Bruna, Fernando; Rungo, Paolo (Economics Bulletin, 2020)[Abstract] In the happiness literature, there is an extensive debate about the diminishing marginal utility of income. However, this issue is neglected when considering another critical driver of happiness, social capital, ... -
Building Social Capital Through Sport Engagement: Evidence for Adults Aged 50 Years and Older
Sánchez-Santos, José Manuel; Rungo, Paolo; Lera-Lopez, Fernando (Cambridge University Press, 2024)[Abstract] Involvement in sports is considered a powerful way to generate social capital. However, the role of sport engagement in the development of social relationships of older adults has not received much attention. ... -
Graduate competencies and employability: the impact of matching firms’ needs and personal attainments
Teijeiro-Alvarez, Mercedes; Rungo, Paolo; Freire Seoane, María Jesús (2013)[Abstract]:Professional competencies are a key factor in gauging how employable a graduate is. This paper demonstrates that individuals who have best developed the competencies which firms feel to be most important are ... -
Health status and learning capacity: effects on human capital accumulation and economic growth
Rungo, Paolo (2008)[Abstract] The importance of health improvements for economic growth has been underlined by a growing number of theoretical and empirical papers. This thesis contributes to the literature by analysing a specific mechanism ... -
Individual Social Capital and Expectations of Career Advancement
Rungo, Paolo; Sánchez-Santos, José Manuel; Pena-López, Atilano (Cambridge University Press, 2024)[Abstract] This article studies the association between the characteristics of individuals’ social networks and expectations of career advancement, including pay raises and job promotions. The literature has extensively ... -
Inequality and Individuals’ Social Networks: The Other Face of Social Capital
Pena-López, Atilano; Rungo, Paolo; Sánchez Santos, José Manuel (2021)[Abstract] Social capital is a controversial concept, which is used in economics as a generic form of pro-sociality and a simple means to introduce the social context into mainstream approaches. However, the accepted view ... -
Out of Your League?: Sporting Event Attendance and Network Socioeconomic Diversity
Rungo, Paolo; Sánchez-Santos, José Manuel (2021) -
Social Ties, Network Socioeconomic Diversity and Sporting Event Attendance
Rungo, Paolo; Sánchez-Santos, José Manuel (Springer, 2022)[Abstrac] Heterogeneous social networks are the source of valued life outcomes, and this heterogeneity is associated with different circumstances and personal attributes. This paper analyses the size and socioeconomic ...