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Explaining the Black/White Employment Gap: The Role of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why minority workers have worse labor-market outcomes than majority workers. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing support in getting a job, we develop a...
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The Old Boy Network: Gender Differences in the Impact of Social Networks on Remuneration in Top Executive Jobs
Lalanne, Marie; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
impact on earnings. There is a large gender wage gap: women (who make up 8.8% of our sample) earned average salaries of $168 … levels. Women are more likely than men to be non-executives, whose salaries are lower; nevertheless, a substantial gender gap … such individuals they have encountered in the past while women's are not. Controlling for this discrepancy, there is no …
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Formation and Persistence of Oppositional Identities
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a dynamic model of identity formation that explains why ethnic minorities may choose to adopt oppositional identities (i.e. some individuals may reject or not the dominant culture) and why this behavior may persist over time. We first show that the prevalence of an oppositional...
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Peer Effects in Education, Sport, and Screen Activities: Local Aggregate or Local Average?
Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop two different social network models with different economic foundations. In the local-aggregate model, it is the sum of friends' efforts in some activity that affects the utility of each individual while, in the local-average model, it is costly to deviate from the average effort of...
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Social Interactions and Labour Market Outcomes in Cities
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business centre to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...
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The Scope of Cooperation: Values and incentives
Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
What explains the range of situations in which individuals cooperate? This paper studies a theoretical model where individuals respond to incentives but are also influenced by norms of good conduct inherited from earlier generations. Parents rationally choose what values to transmit to their...
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Strong and Weak Ties in Employment and Crime
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper analyses the interplay between social structure and information exchange in two competing activities, crime and labour. We consider a dynamic model in which individuals belong to mutually exclusive two-person groups, referred to as dyads. There are multiple equilibria. If jobs are...
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Oppositional Identities and the Labour Market
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, MacDonald; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbours) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...
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Delinquent Networks
Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modelled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...
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Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
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