This paper studies the effect of coworker-based networks on individual labour market outcomes. I analyse how the … wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the … these networks that is due to the occurrence of mass-layoffs in the establishments of former coworkers. The empirical …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the … of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …

It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a … musicians and discourages talented agents from becoming full-time musicians in all second-best economies. In Italy both …

evidence of higher wages and employment stability for those with more employed friends, which is consistent with networks …

- and unskilled migrants in India. Consistent with the theoretical predictions, we find a high prevalence of workplace …

integration along ethno-linguistic lines was driven by the formation of ethno-linguistic networks. Finally, the analysis shows …

generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in the field. We find that networks of different dimensions differ … substantially in density, clustering, and centrality. When relating generosity to networks we observe that social distance only …

margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for each skill level, the distribution of migration cost is also … migration is decreasing in the skill level. When the semi-elasticity of migration is increasing in the skill level, either … negative. Numerical simulations are calibrated using plausible values of the semi-elasticity of migration for top income …