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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from...
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Migrant networks and the spread of misinformation
Elsner, Benjamin; Narciso, Gaia; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2013
in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the … migration. Yet we find no evidence that the quality of the network affects the timing of migration. …
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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 2014
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...
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The formation of migrant networks
Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - 2014
This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
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Social ties and the job search of recent immigrants
Goel, Deepti; Lang, Kevin - 2016
In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a theoretical model we show that the wage differential in jobs found using networks versus those found...
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Informational cascades and decision to migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
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The influence of others on migration plans
Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Migrant networks and destination choice: evidence from moves across Turkish provinces
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021
This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …
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Social learning along international migrant networks
Tian, Yuan; Caballero, Maria Ésther; Kovak, Brian K. - 2020
We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...
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Social networks and mental health problems : evidence from rural-to-urban migrants in China
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017
survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …
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