highly educated immigrants, the share of immigrants in business network occupations shows a particularly large effect on … those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …

sampling, list randomization and social network analysis to construct a series of empirically valid estimates that can begin to …

treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate …

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data … network. Specifically rural low-ability weavers are found to improve their performance as their high-ability teammates (who …

. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower …

contact with their former colleagues. This implies that the positive feedback ("social network effects") that has been found …

Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find …. We show that, when the network size increases, on average, the unemployed workers hear about more vacancies through their … social network but, at the same time, it is more likely that multiple vacancies reach the same unemployed worker. Above a …