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Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets
Fainmesser, Itay - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2010
fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We o¤er a two-stage model in which workers in … changes to the network structure on the unraveling of the market towards early hiring. Moreover, we show that an e¢ cient … design of the matching procedure can prevent unraveling. …
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Social Networks in Labor Markets
Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Ioannides, Yannis M. - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2005
Research in sociology and economics point to important role for social networks in labor markets. Social contacts … employees. Recent theoretical advances show that for agents connected through networks employment is positively cor- related …
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Multilateral matching
Hatfield, John William; Kominers, Scott Duke - In: Journal of Economic Theory 156 (2015) C, pp. 175-206
We introduce a matching model in which agents engage in joint ventures via multilateral contracts. This approach allows us to consider production complementarities previously outside the scope of matching theory. We show analogues of the first and second welfare theorems and, when agents'...
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Allocation rules for coalitional network games
CAULIER, Jean-François; MAULEON, Ana; VANNETELBOSCH, … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013
Coalitional network games are real-valued functions defined on a set of players organized into a network and a coalition structure. We adopt a flexible approach assuming that players organize themselves the best way possible by forming the efficient coalitional network structure. We propose two...
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An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation
Currarini, Sergio; Pin, Paolo; Jackson, Matthew O. - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2007
networks. Individuals come in different types and have type-dependent benefits from friendships; we examine the properties of a …
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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...
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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2013
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia mem- bers active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters’ economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743398
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Identity, Community and Segregation
Reich, Bryony - NET Institute - 2010
I develop a framework to explain why identity divides some communities and not others. An identity group is defined as a group of individuals with the same `culture'. A community is divided when different identities are socially segregated; a community is integrated when there is no social...
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Understanding Organized Crime Networks: Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret Files on American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2010
Using unique data on criminal profiles of 800 US Mafia members active in the 50s and 60s and on their connections within the Cosa Nostra network we analyze how the geometry of criminal ties between mobsters depends on family ties, community roots and ties, legal and illegal activities. We...
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Stability, Specialization and Social Recognition
Ruys, Pieter H.M.; Gilles, R.P.; Lazarova, E.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006
Yang s theory of economic specialization under increasing returns to scale (Yang 2001) is a formal development of the fundamental Smith-Young theorem on the extent of the market and the social division of labor.In this theory specialization and, thus, the social division of labor is firmly...
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