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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

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

social networks. We find that, depending on how strong they are linked to their culture of origin, non-whites choose to adopt …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207065

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

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

workers depend on social networks as well as distance to jobs. Location choices are driven by the racial preferences of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771093

Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities

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

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...

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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market

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

social networks. We find that, depending on how strong peer pressures are, non-whites choose to adopt "oppositional …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645292

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

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

networks. We then analyze a policy that consists of finding and getting rid of the key player, that is, the criminal who, once …

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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 … uneducated or educated. We show that, conditional on being employed, the probability to find a job through social networks …

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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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Inequality and Trust

Jordahl, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

negative relationship: social ties (or networks), inference on social relationships (to see inequality as a signal of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029285

Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities

Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

, though networks are a popular method of finding a job for the ethnic minorities, they are not necessarily the most effective … out disproportionately from using personal networks. …

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Team Composition and External Network

Meyerson, Eva M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

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