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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

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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City Structure, Job Search, and Labor Discrimination. Theory and Policy Implications

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

We consider a search-matching model in which black workers are discriminated against and the job arrival rates of all workers depend on social networks as well as distance to jobs. Location choices are driven by the racial preferences of households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing...

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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

result, individuals are more likely to be employed and to be able to pay higher land rents. We also show that, under some …

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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

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Who's Who in Crime Network. Wanted the Key Player

Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

Criminals are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among criminals are modeled by means of a graph where criminals compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbours. Each criminal decides in a non-cooperative way how much crime effort he will exert. We...

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Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt

Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the size and the quality of social networks on the probability to find a job. We first develop a theoretical model in which individuals are embedded within a network of social relationships. Workers can obtain information about jobs via employed...

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Political Selection in China: the Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance

Jia, Ruixue; Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Seim, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Who becomes a top politician in China? We focus on provincial leaders a pool of candidates for top political office and examine how their chances of promotion depend on their performance in office and connections with top politicians. Our empirical analysis, based on the curriculum vitae of...

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Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloé; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....

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Tacit Collusion and Capacity Withholding in Repeated Uniform Price Auctions

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Kovenock, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

This paper contributes to the study of tacit collusion by analyzing infinitely repeated multiunit uniform price … which the monopoly outcome with equal sharing is sustainable in the uniform price auction, but not in the corresponding … number of steps, maximal collusion is attained with simple price-quantity strategies exhibiting capacity withholding. …

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Private Observation, Tacit Collusion and Collusion with Communication

Mouraviev, Igor - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

The paper studies the role of communication in facilitating collusion. The situation of infinitely repeated Cournot … collusive output levels or a 'downward' demand shock. The firms choose between tacit collusion and collusion with communication … the firms are sued for cartel behavior and pay a fine. Tacit collusion is assumed to provide no grounds for the legal …

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