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Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761936
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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014
-state equilibrium with full social interactions. We show that these equilibria are usually not socially efficient when the urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333333
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Socio-spatial transformations, suburbanisation, and voting behaviour in the Vilnius urban region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; van Ham, Maarten - 2012
landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290025
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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271981
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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-state equilibrium with full social interactions. We show that these equilibria are usually not socially efficient when the urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737584
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Ethnic networks and employment outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268917
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261899
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Employment protection legislation in Russia: regional enforcement and labour market outcomes
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapelyushnikov, Rostislav; … - 2009
strong assumption for any country but it sounds especially strong and hardly plausible for developing and transition … likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274408
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Employment concentration and resource allocation: One-company towns in Russia
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Plekhanov, Alexander - 2011
-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282607
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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282473