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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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first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is … network specific factors, the individual's position in a network (as measured by her Katz-Bonacich centrality) is a key …
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Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...
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In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...
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We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We found that, depending on how...
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This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...
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This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers can be matched together through social networks and through more efficient, but also more costly, methods. In this framework, decentralized decisions to utilize social networks in the job search process can be...
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We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We find that, depending on how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267355
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph … non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he will exert. Using the network model developed by Ballester et al. (2006 … characterization of optimal single player network removal for delinquency reduction, the key player, to optimal group removal, the key …
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are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher … density of links in the social network and with the degree to which agents are clustered in physical space. When agents can … choose geographic locations, there is a tendency for those who are more central in the social network to locate closer to the …
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