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This paper investigates the importance and role of migration networks in Senegal using a new nationally representative survey conducted in 2006-2007. Using a sample of 1707 Senegalese households I explore potentially differential effects of networks on international migration depending on their...
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The scientific study article (a monograph) presents a model for forecasting and estimating the evolution of the market demand.
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Despites the great interest caused by social networks in Business Science, their analysis is rarely performed both in a global and systematic way in this field: most authors focus on parts of the studied network, or on a few nodes considered individually. This could be explained by the fact that...
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Despites the great interest caused by social networks in Business Science, their analysis is rarely performed in both a global and systematic way in this field. This could be explained by the fact their practical extraction is a difficult and costly task. One may ask if equivalent information...
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This paper aims at discovering the national influences inside the Governing Council of the ECB for setting interest rates. We use a textual analysis of national newspaper articles related to each European central banker to analyze their expressed preferences. We proceed to a cluster analysis...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply …
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How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare …
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This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well … demonstrate that migrants regard home countries as natural comparators and, thereby, suggest an original assessment of the …
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In the paper, we study a model of influence in a social network. It is assumed that each player has an inclination to say YES or NO which, due to influence of other players, may be different from the decision of the player. The point of departure here is the concept of the Hoede-Bakker index -...
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In the dynamic game we consider, players are the members of a fixed network. Everyone is initially endowed with an information item that he is the only paper to hold. Players are offered a finite number of periods to centralize the initially dispersed items in the hands of any one member of the...
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