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Using Your Ties to Get a Worse Job? The Differential Effects of Social Networks on Quality of Employment in Colombia

Deguilhem, Thibaud - 2018

This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...

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Social networks and innovation (handicraft industry in Bantul, Yogyakarta)

Aloysius Gunadi, Brata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

newest innovations are managerial innovation, marketing innovation and product innovation. Meanwhile, product innovation and … managerial innovation are the most important innovations in enhancing the business performance. Based on the actors, innovation … in this case could be classified as producer driven innovation. The main information source of product innovation …

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Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention

Gaudeul, Alexia; Mathieu, Laurence; Peroni, Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Blogs differ from other media in that authors are usually not remunerated and inscribe themselves in communities of similarly minded individuals. Bloggers value reciprocal attention, interaction with other bloggers and information from reading other blogs; they value being read but also writing...

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GAME INFORMATION, LOCAL HEROES, AND THEIR EFFECT ON ATTENDANCE: THE CASE OF THE JAPANESE BASEBALL LEAGUE

yamamura, eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Can professional sports teams develop their fan base and increase attendance by using players from their same hometown? In the Japanese Professional Baseball League, the starting pitcher is announced prior to the game in the Pacific League but not in the Central League. Considering...

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Social Network and Social Protection: Evidence from Cameroon

Yogo, Urbain Thierry; Mallaye, Douzounet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Household in developing countries use a variety of informal and formal mechanisms to cope with risk, including mutual support and public social security program. The present study addresses the issue of the relationship between social network and social protection both formal and informal. Using...

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Social Networks and the Decision to Insure

Cai, Jing; de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Using data from a randomized experiment in rural China, this paper studies the influence of social networks on weather insurance adoption and the mechanisms through which social networks operate. To quantify network effects, the experiment offers intensive information sessions about the...

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Some Inquiries to Spontaneous Opinions: A case with Twitter in Indonesia

Maulana, Ardian; Situngkir, Hokky - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper discusses opportunities to utilize the series of micro-blogs as provided by the Twitter in observation of opinion dynamics. The spontaneity of tweets is more, as the service is attached more to the mobile communications. The extraction of information in the series of tweets is...

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Social Network and Job Quality: Evidence from Cameroon

Yogo, Urbain Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using Cameroonian data, this paper investigates the effects of social network on job quality. Social network is measured in terms of using friends and relatives while looking for a job. As regards to job quality, two aspects have been taken into consideration: monetary job quality which is...

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Qualité de la formation professionnelle initiale au Maroc et impact des actions de formation continue sur les performances des entreprises marocaines

Bouoiyour, Jamal; Dumas, Audrey; Hanchane, Said - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The objective of this chapter is to estimate the performance and the return of professional training in term of integration of the professional training graduates in labour market. Using a micro econometric study based on data of the OFPPT graduates over the period 2000, 2001 and 2002, the...

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Evolutionary Analysis of Climate Policy and Renewable Energy: Heterogeneous Agents, Relative Welfare and Social Network

Nannen, Volker; den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We demonstrate how an evolutionary agent-based model can be used to evaluate climate policies that take the heterogeneity of strategies of individual agents into account. An essential feature of the model is that the fitness of an economic strategy is determined by the relative welfare of the...

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