Menyashev R.,
Polishchuk L. Научные доклады Института институциональных исследований. WP10. Высшая школа экономики, 2011. No. 01.
In a number of studies social capital is shown to have substantial positive impact on economic development, institutional performance, and quality of governance. So far no such analyses were available for Russia, and the present paper is intended to fill this gap. We propose a model which differentiates the impact on economic welfare of bridging and bonding forms of social capital. The empirical part of the study is based on 2007 survey data collected in the Geo-Rating project. We establish significant positive relationship between bridging social capital and urban development in Russia. Bonding social capital works in the opposite direction: its impact on development is negative. It is further shown that the transmission mechanism between social capital and economic outcomes is based on municipal governance: bridging social capital improves government accountability, whereas bonding social capital reduces the political costs of malfeasance and thus facilitates the abuse of power.
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Павленко О. Б. В кн.: Теоретические проблемы этнической и кросс-культурной психологии: материалы Третьей международной научной конференции 24-25 мая 2012 г. Том 1. Т. 1: Проблемы методологии этнической и кросс-культурной психологии. Смоленск: Маджента, 2012.
С. 175-178.
The article examines differences between two Russian regions – Moscow and Bashkortostan – through the following socio-psychological indicators: perceived social capital, trust, civil identity, life satisfaction, and economic attitudes.
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M.: Cogito-Centre–IPRAS Publishing House, 2013.
The book includes proceedings of the conference “Business. Society. Human” (October 30–31, 2013, Moscow) organized by National Research University Higher School of Economics. The purpose of the conference: interdisciplinary analysis of actual problems of studying business in the social sciences: the relationship between business and society; social capital and trust; business and corporate culture; individual, group and organization in business; problems and prospects of business education and business consulting, etc. The book present the results of researches of trust and social capital carried out in various countries in Europe, Asia and in Russia. Authors are well-known sociologists, psychologists and economists. The results of these researches were presented at the conference. The papers are published as they were submitted by the author.
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This book presents a course of English for Specific Purposes devoted specifically to the widely-discussed topic Web 2.0. It covers several aspects of online communication ranging from online friendship to business interacions. The activities presented in the coursebook are aimed at developing students’ communicative competence in both written and oral discourse. Web 2.0 includes a variety of authentic articles that arouse interest and provoke discussions. It also presents listening texts based on professional podcasts. Most grammar and vocabulary activities are developed from authentic texts as well.
Web 2.0 can be used at the B2-C1 levels of Common European Famework. The coursebook will help learn and practice the target vocabulary. It will be relevant to those interested in the development of Information and Communication Technologies in general and the Internet in particular.
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Galaskiewicz J., Duckles B. M., Mayorova O. V. In bk.: Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities, and Families. NY: Routledge, 2009. P. 299-326.
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Spencer S. B. Sociological Imagination. 2001. Vol. 38. No. 3. P. 166-189.
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Савельева О. О. Локус: люди, общество, культуры, смыслы. 2016. № 1.
С. 86-96.
The main reason the so-called "crisis of education" covers not only the rap-id changes in the system of knowledge and technology, but also the changes in the labor market, the prevalence of atypical employment. As a result, the univer-sity, by definition, can not train a specialist, fully satisfying the requirements of the employer. For example, the direction of "Advertising and public relations" proposes measures to resolve the existing contradictions.
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Menyashev R. Economics. EC. Высшая школа экономики, 2011. No. 05.
A popular view in Russian studies argues that underdevelopment of Russian civil society is
partly responsible for the failure of liberal idea in Russia. The fragmented society may see no
alternative to massive government regulation, which is why support for a strong state is so high.
If this logic is true, the di erences in civicness across urban societies should show up in di erent
levels of liberal parties' support. The paper estimates this e ect. It was found that the transition
from the most passive urban society to the most active in the sample increases the vote for liberal
parties by a third. A unit increase in the number of consumer cooperatives per 1000 of citizens
leads to a 3.5% drop in Communist Party results in 1995 and a 4% drop in United Russia votes in
2007. To demonstrate the causality we instrument the development of civil society by the number
of years since the foundation of the rst university in each city.
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Edited by: R. Hsung, N. Lin, R. Breiger. NY: Routledge, 2009.
The book’s stated objective is to uncover context, “how social capital interacts with social institutions.” It is part of a new wave of research on social capital that, dissatisfied with both macro analyses limited to societal patterns and micro analyses limited to actors’ conditions, seeks to understand the operation of networks at the meso-level: how institutions and organizations structure the transfer of resources across networks. It purports to make both theoretical and methodological contributions, the first by developing the concept of “institutional logics,” the latter by “casting diverse contextual settings as ‘generators’ of social relations”, and studying these contexts from multiple methodological perspectives. (from a review by M. Small)
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Davydenko D. In bk.: Mediation. Principles and Regulation in Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Ch. 23. P. 1165-1200.
The chapter in a monograph gives an insight into the key problems and most recent tendencies of the law and practice of mediation in Russia. Russia already has detailed federal legislation governing mediation. Also, mediation has been practised in Russia for years, even when such legislation was not in force. Furthermore, Russian law governing mediation is in rapid development. Thus current Russian experience can be of interest to legislators and practitioners from many countries which also face problems with case overload in the state courts.
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Воронова Л. И., Авхадеев Б. Р., Охапкина Е. П. Вестник Нижневартовского государственного университета. 2014. № 3. С. 68-77.
There have been implemented engineering and development of multi-agent recommender system «EZSurf» that performs analysis of interests and provides recommendations for the social network «VKontakte» users based on the data from profile of particular user. During the work process different methods and technological solutions have been analyzed with examination of their advantages and disadvantages. Besides of that the comparative analysis of analogous products has been held where the most similar is Russian start-up service - Surfingbird. Based on this analysis the decision of recommender system implementation and integration has been accepted. The feature of this system is that it uses social network “VKontakte” profile for user’s data collection and API of third-party services (LastFM, TheMovieDB) for an extraction of information about similar objects. Such an approach contributes into optimization of recommender system, because it does not require creation of its own object classification system and objects database. The functionality of multi-agent system was separated between three agents. First agent (Collector) collects user data from “VKontakte” profile using VK API. Second agent (Analyzer) collects similar objects from databases of thitd-party services (LastFM, TheMovieDB) that will be the criteria for further search of recommendatory content. For search and selection of information an agent (Recommender) that works as web-crawler has been implemented. System «EZSurf» can be exploited by the users of social network “VKontakte” in everyday life for time economy on web-surfing process. At the same time they will get recommendations on content that are filtered depending on preferences of every particular user.
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The efficiency of social reforms in different countries mostly depends on the extent to which they can be accepted by the population. However, even if problems are similar, the reasons may differ, which can make it difficult to apply existing laws of one state to another. Bribery is a typical problem for developing countries as shown in the Corruption Perception Index (calculated by Transparency International) and recent research (Levin and Satarov, 2000) (Ilzetzki, 2011). Corruption can have roots in socialist regimes as in recently established political stability instable economic situation may lead to growth in crime. The main challenge within the scope of this project is to identify the relation between corruption perception and levels of trust in society and to distinguish the differences in factors affecting these characteristics. The research reveals that distrust matters a lot for the problem in Russia and suggests further examination of the dynamics of trust between post Soviet countries and European countries.
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Кларк Б. Р. М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2011.
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This paper examines the impact of family income on the results of the Unified State Examination (the
USE) and university choice in Russia. We argue that, even under the USE, which was introduced
instead of high school exit exams and university-specific entrance exams, entrants from wealthy
households still have an advantage in terms of access to higher education, since income positively
affects USE scores through the channel of a higher level of investment in pre-entry coaching.
Moreover, richer households make more effective decisions about university. We have found positive
and significant relationships between the level of income and USE results for high school graduates,
with an equal achievement before coaching. We subsequently propose that students from the most
affluent households do invest more in additional types of preparation (pre-entry courses and individual
lessons with tutors), and those extra classes provide a higher return for children from this particular
income group. Finally, we show that holding the result of the USE equal, students with good and fair
marks from wealthy families are admitted to universities with higher average USE score than those
from poorer families. As a result, we can observe that income status is a factor that significantly
influences enrollment to university.
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Кн. 14: Секция 14. Развитие образовательного процесса на основе современной системы интерактивного обучения в условиях модернизации образования. М.: МГТУ «МАМИ», 2012.
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Тенилова Т. Л. Юридическая техника. 2009. № 3. С. 309-316.
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Шапиро Н. А. Литература. Учебно-методический журнал для учителей словесности. 2011. № 14. С. 27-29.
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Exposure to prenatal androgens affects both future behavior and life choices. However, there is still relatively limited evidence on its effects on academic performance. Moreover, the predicted effect of exposure to prenatal testosterone (T) - which is inversely correlated with the relative length of the second to fourth finger lengths (2D:4D) - would seem to have ambiguous effects on academic achievement since traits like confidence, aggressiveness, or risk-taking are not uniformly positive for success in school. We provide the first evidence of a non-linear relationship between 2D:4D and academic achievement using samples from Moscow and Manila. We find that there is a quadratic relationship between high T exposure and markers of achievement such as grades or test scores and that the optimum digit ratio for women in our sample is lower (indicating higher prenatal T) than the average. The results for men are generally insignificant for Moscow but significant for Manila showing similar non-linear effects. Our work is thus unusual in that it draws from a large sample of nearly a thousand university students in Moscow and over a hundred from Manila for whom we also have extensive information on high school test scores, family background and other potential correlates of achievement. Our work is also the first to have a large cross country comparison that includes two groups with very different ethnic compositions.
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Жунич И. И., Ткачева Н. Л. Вып. 1: Содержание профессиональной подготовки по иностранным языкам в неязыковом вузе: современные тенденции, актуальные проблемы, пути решения: доклады и материалы Международной научно-практической конференции. М.: Логос, 2012.
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Успенская Е. А.,
Шмаль М. В. Альманах современной науки и образования. 2011. № 3(46).
С. 171-181.
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Institutions affect investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Hence institutions are relevant for the allocation of talent. Good market-supporting institutions attract talent to productive value-creating activities, whereas poor ones raise the appeal of rent-seeking. We propose a theoretical model that predicts that more talented individuals are particularly sensitive in their career choices to the quality of institutions, and test these predictions on a sample of around 95 countries of the world. We find a strong positive association between the quality of institutions and graduation of college and university students in science, and an even stronger negative correlation with graduation in law. Our findings are robust to various specifications of empirical models, including smaller samples of former colonies and transition countries. The quality of human capital makes the distinction between educational choices under strong and weak institutions particularly sharp. We show that the allocation of talent is an important link between institutions and growth.
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Ч. 1. Волгоград: Волгоградское научное издательство, 2010.
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2012.
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Трунин П. В., Дробышевский С. М., Евдокимова Т. В. М.: Издательский дом «Дело» РАНХиГС, 2012.
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Яковлев А. А. Общественные науки и современность. 2008. № 4.
С. 21-37.
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The paper examines the institute of minimum wage in developed and transition economies and in a number of the developing countries. First of all the institutional mechanism of minimum wage fixing is considered. One of the sections explores the dynamics of absolute and relative levels of minimum wage. The special attention is paid to the impact of the institute of minimum wage on the labour market. The author considers the mechanism of transmission of the minimum wage increases on the employment and unemployment dynamics. The paper also contains the result of the empirical research. The experience of many countries witnesses that large increases in minimum wage levels lead to the stagnation of the employ-ment, especially of the disadvantaged groups. The negative effect is larger for the companies with higher share of labour costs and more active use of unqualified labour, that is small businesses and agricultural enterprises. One of the main conclusions is that the minimum wage is not an effective tool of the poverty reduction as the majority of the recipients live in households of average and upper average income.
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