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The role of social networks in cultural assimilation
Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
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Networks and migrants' intended destination
Bertoli, Simone; Ruyssen, Ilse - 2016
Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed. We rely on individual-level surveys conducted by Gallup in 147 countries that provide information on migration intentions and on the existence of distance-one connections for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532582
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The formation of networks in the diaspora
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2016
immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase …
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Peer effects in networks : a survey
Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; Fortin, Bernard - 2020
We survey the recent, fast-growing literature on peer effects in networks. An important recurring theme is that the causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network itself. In the absence of correlated effects, the reflection problem is generally solved by network...
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Linguistic distance, networks and migrants' regional location choice
Bredtmann, Julia; Nowotny, Klaus; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants …
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Job contact networks and wages of rural-urban migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013
two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and … whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method. We find evidence of positive selection …
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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - 2017
these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human …
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna (contributor); Vella, Francis (contributor) - 2007
This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...
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Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data are estimated to control for the endogeneity of...
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