We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data … knowledge sharing hypothesis that low-ability workers learn from high-ability workers but not vice versa. Second, by exploiting … firms in Chinese cities, we find that performance spillovers/knowledge sharing take place only within the confines of social …

contact with their former colleagues. This implies that the positive feedback (social network effects) that has been found by … other studies not only exists but even outweighs the disruption and loss of knowledge occurring to the previous employer …

network has a star structure. We find that with homogeneous agents, equilibrium predictions fail completely. In contrast, with …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 formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … focus on the impact of their structure on individuals' outcomes. Using a game-theoretical framework, we then compare the …

Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find …. We show that, when the network size increases, on average, the unemployed workers hear about more vacancies through their … social network but, at the same time, it is more likely that multiple vacancies reach the same unemployed worker. Above a …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …