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Immigrant Networking and Collaboration : Survey Evidence from CIC
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one's own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge Innovation Center. CIC is...
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William R. - 2020
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481616
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The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks
Caballero, Maria Ésther; Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
communities. These findings document the effects in Mexico when potential migrants lose access to a strong US labor market …
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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants' social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …
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Social Networks and Access to Health Care Among Mexican-Americans
Gresenz, Carole Roan - 2007
This research explores social networks and their relationship to access to health care among adult Mexican-Americans. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) linked to data from the 2000 U.S. Census and other data sources. We analyze multiple measures of access to health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465188
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R. - 2015
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more likely than other immigrants to operate dry cleaners, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are 108...
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Bound by Ancestors : Immigration, Credit Frictions, and Global Supply Chain Formation
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Park, Ziho - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...
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Network-Based Hiring : Local Benefits; Global Costs
Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2020
Entrepreneurs, particularly in the developing world, often hire from their networks: friends, family, and resulting referrals. Network hiring has two benefits, documented extensively in the empirical literature: entrepreneurs know more about the ability of their network (and indeed they are...
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Drug Diffusion Through Peer Networks : The Influence of Industry Payments
Agha, Leila - 2019
Pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts primarily target physicians, often through individual detailing that entails monetary or in-kind transfers. We study how peer influence broadens these payments' reach beyond the directly paid physicians. Combining Medicare prescriptions and Open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480282
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Network Data
Graham, Bryan S. - 2019
Many economic activities are embedded in networks: sets of agents and the (often) rivalrous relationships connecting them to one another. Input sourcing by firms, interbank lending, scientific research, and job search are four examples, among many, of networked economic activities. Motivated by...
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