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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348344
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The will, the pendulum, and human choice : Jevons and Bergson on the measurability of human feelings
Maas, Harro - 1996
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Converging perceptions of economic activities between east and west : a three-mode principal component analysis
Veldscholte, Carla M.; Antonides, Gerrit; Kroonenberg, … - 1995
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On the hypothesis of psychological barriers in stock markets and Benford's Law : an application to the Dow Jones industrial average
De Ceuster, Marc J.; Dhaene, Geert; Schatteman, Tom - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000921077
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Uncertainty avoidance and the rate of business ownership across 22 OECD countries, 1976 - 2000
Wennekers, A. R.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2004
This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334327
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Uncertainty avoidance and the rate of business ownership across 22 OECD countries, 1976 - 2000
Wennekers, A. R.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001884431
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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008
rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372966
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Geographical distribution of unemployment : an analysis of provincial differences in Italy
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372985
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Optimal government spending and unemployment
Linnemann, Ludger; Schabert, Andreas - 2008 - This version: February 29, 2008
We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …
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Unemployment and search externalities in a model with heterogeneous jobs and heterogeneous workers
Gautier, Pieter - 1999 - This version: June, 25, 1999
The continuing deterioration of the position of low skilled workers in the beginning of the 90's in essentially all industrialized countries is one of the most debated issues in both labor and macro-economics. In this paper a matching model with low and high skilled workers and simple and...
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