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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) 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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Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks
Boucher, Vincent; Fortin, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
well as for the identity of the key player. We study the possibility of testing endogeneity in network formation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196642
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
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Racial Identity and Education
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers’ test … friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent’s education that are responsible for the difference in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822127
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Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...
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Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761936
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Network Formations among Immigrants and Natives
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we examine possible network formations among immigrants and natives with endogenous investment. We consider a model of a network formation where the initiator of the link bears its cost while both agents benefit from it. We present the model by considering possible interactions...
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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct … cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by neighborhood integration, which weakens group loyalties and prejudices. On … identity processes. We find evidence consistent with intense ethnic and religious identity mostly formed as a cultural …
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Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England
Battu, Harminder; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527303
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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...
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