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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions

Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004

We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed and...

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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace: Evidence from a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

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Lying and team incentives

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2011

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...

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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008

-ability teammates who are urban residents. Such heterogeneous performance interdependence of workers within the same team suggests that … our evidence for performance spillovers is less likely to be a result of team specific demand shocks that generate … spurious performance interdependence of all team members. …

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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005

Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...

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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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