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contact with their former colleagues. This implies that the positive feedback ("social network effects") that has been found … by other studies not only exists but even outweighs the disruption and loss of knowledge occurring to the previous …
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There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
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occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
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the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
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-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …
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direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …
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the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate …
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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 …
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We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data … knowledge sharing hypothesis that low-ability workers learn from high-ability workers but not vice versa. Second, by exploiting … firms in Chinese cities, we find that performance spillovers/knowledge sharing take place only within the confines of social …
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