title: Bridging Social Capital and Individual Earnings: Evidence for an Inverted U.
abstract: Based on data on a cross section of individuals surveyed in the 1999-2002 wave of World and European Values Surveys, we investigate the multilateral associations between bridging social capital, individuals' earnings, as well as social trust and employment status. Our analysis provides robust evidence that the relationship between bridging social capital and earnings is inverted-U shaped. We carry out a range of tests in order to ascertain that this result is not driven by regressor endogeneity or omitted variables bias. We also identify significant interaction effects between bridging social capital, social trust, and employment status.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology of Personality, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, ul. Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Growiec
authors.affiliation: Department of Quantitative Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, al. Niepodległości 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland ; Narodowy Bank Polski, ul. Świętokrzyska 11/21, 00-919 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Jakub
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Growiec
keywords: Bridging social capital; Earnings; Nonlinearity; Social trust