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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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Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper is to investigate this issue by empirically analyzing the potential trade-off for ethnic...
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Communist government in Europe. Our results are suggestive of information transmission and cultural diffusion channels …
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the Netherlands to reflect and expand upon the existing knowledge on the role of social networks in migration processes …-demographic profiles and relate these to migration strategies. We show that differences in the ways migrants access and use social networks … social networks based on community or kin relationships, to consider multiple configurations involving different agents …
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In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...
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groups in the UK. Our empirical findings suggest that, though personal networks are a popular method of finding a job for the … differences across ethnic groups with some groups losing out disproportionately from using personal networks. …
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This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which … firm. These findings have important implications in suggesting that job search networks help to reduce informational …
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systems are generally either conflated with migrant networks or elevated to the heights of macro-level abstraction which …
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This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which … firm. These findings have important implications in suggesting that job search networks help to reduce informational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191078
networks obtained through marriage play an important part in explaining this effect. …
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