This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between … systematically explores the net effects of all these "proximities" on co-patenting. The regression analysis allows us to identify the … less important than organisational, social, and ethnic links. For inventors as a whole, proximities are fundamentally …

power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using …

childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one hand, and heights on the other, when networks are included as … labor market outcomes suggests that, while childhood circumstances affect height largely via social status and networks as …

Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed …

We measure the impact of labor market referral networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following … mass layoffs. Because networks can only be effective when hiring is occurring, we focus on a measure of the strength of the … strength that try to disentangle the mechanism by which networks operate – either by conveying information to job seekers about …