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A social network analysis of occupational segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...

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Strong ties in a small world

Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006

In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...

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Stable networks

Dutta, Bhaskar; Mutuswami, Suresh - 1997

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The emergence of social structure: employer information networks in an experimental labor market

Gërxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - 2011

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Risk aversion and social networks

Kovářík, Jaromír; Leij, Marco van der - 2011

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Business networks and crisis performance : professional, political, and family ties

Carney, Richard W.; Child, Travers Barclay - 2015

connections, political ties, and family business-group affiliation. Many widely-cited findings may therefore be subject to …, political, and family networks for 1,290 large East Asian firms. We find that professional networks buoyed performance during … the 2008 financial crisis; political and family networks did not. We provide evidence that information access is a key …

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On the nature, modeling, and neural bases of social ties

Winden, Frans A. A. M. van; Stallen, Mirre; … - 2008

Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual...

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Out of Africa : what drives the pressure to emigrate?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - 2004

migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …

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One-way flow networks : the role of heterogeneity

Galeotti, Andrea - 2004

I study a one-way flow connections model in which players are heterogeneous with respect to values and the costs of establishing a link. I first show that values and costs asymmetries are crucial in determining the level of connectedness of a network. Interestingly, unconnected equilibria are...

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Network formation under heterogeneous costs : the multiple group model

Kamphorst, Jurjen; Laan, Gerard van der - 2004

It is widely recognized that the shape of networks influences both individual and aggregate behavior. This raises the question which types of networks are likely to arise. Our paper fits into the literature that addresses this question. The paper continues on the work of Galeotti, Goyal and...

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