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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...
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employment of migrants in 8 Italian cities. Our data, which are representative of the population of both legal and illegal … migrants, allow us to measure segregation at the very local level (the block) and include measures of house prices, commuting … costs and migrants' linguistic ability. We find evidence that migrants who reside in areas with a high concentration of non …
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Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a …
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In this paper we relate a particular form of social interactions, i.e. peer group influences, to the structure of the network from which they originate. Using an extremely detailed dataset on friendship relationships between students from U.S. school, we find evidence suggesting that the...
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We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification. Our results demonstrate that the death of a co-offender significantly reduces the criminal activities of other network members. We observe a decaying pattern in the magnitude...
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