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Siddique, Abu - 2020

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment …

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Compensating wage differentials, workers' heterogeneity and imperfect competition in the labour market

Wauthy, Xavier Yves; Zenou, Yves - 1997

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Efficiency wages, labour heterogeneity and the financing of training cost

Wauthy, Xavier Yves; Zenou, Yves - 1997

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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities

Helsley, Robert W. - 2011

We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...

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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind : Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

Wahba, Jackline - 2009

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...

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The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Zenou, Yves - 2005

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...

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Delinquent Networks

Ballester, Coralio - 2009

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...

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Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?

Bertoli, Simone - 2015

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration...

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Social Norms in Networks

Ushchev, Philip - 2019

Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...

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