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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks

Dietz, Barbara - 1999

. Consistent with network theory, the social background of the Aussiedler group became more representative of the sending … the labor market performance of ethnic Germans, the outcome of network participation with respect to social absorption is …

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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...

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In search of stars: network formation among heterogeneous agents

Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno; Ule, Aljaz - 2005

This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The … experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by … network has a star structure. We find that with homogeneous agents, equilibrium predictions fail completely. In contrast, with …

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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia: an exploration

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006

In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia in terms of three...

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Measuring the importance of labor market networks

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008

We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people … importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by …

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Family networks and school enrolment: evidence from a randomized social experiment

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - 2009

embedded in a family network. Eligible but isolated households do not respond. The mechanism through which the extended family … influences household schooling choices is the redistribution of resources within the family network from eligibles that receive …

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Social networks

de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - 2009

network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does …

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Immigrant Networks and Their Implications forOccupational Choice and Wages

Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

2000. We examine theextent to which this growth can be attributed to network effects... …

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Social Learning along International Migrant Networks

Tian, Yuan; Caballero, Maria Esther; Kovak, Brian K. - 2020

We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...

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