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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
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network of German corporate boards as well as closely connected among themselves. While their analysis has been based on data … turnover within the group of persons constituting the network core. -- Board and director interlocks ; network core ; network …
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highly central in the entire network while being densely connected among themselves. To identify the core, we compare the … the existence of a core in Germany's board and director network. Conditional on being a board member, it is very … monitoring ability. -- Board and director interlocks ; network core ; network formation ; market capitalization …
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internal promotions and job-to-job mobility. Both, formal applications and referral hiring via endogenous social networks, can … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … level management positions of firms. Our results suggest that endogenously forming homophilous social networks when female …
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is known as the glass-ceiling effect. In this study we investigate the relationship between social networks and the glass … levels and social networks are generated endogenously. Male and female workers move up in the hierarchical ladder via job … jobs or by referrals, which implies that senior workers recommend their social contacts for the job. Social networks …
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This paper provides evidence of the effect of immigration-based networks on German trade. Germany presents a particular … interesting case study to examine the effect of ethnic networks on exports due to its high export dependence and its reserved … migration policy. According to our results, we find no trade creating effect from migrant networks on exports but on imports …
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On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
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. To this end, we hypothesize that the respondents of the survey under investigation form a core-periphery network, and we … discrete setting showed significantly better prediction capabilities than those agents assigned to the periphery of the network …. -- Business climate ; network topology ; economic expectations …
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. Based on crosssectional data, the study explores the network activities within the tenant portfolio and the academicindustry …
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developing a core-periphery model, and devise a procedure for fitting the model to real-world networks. Using Bundesbank data on … provides a promising avenue for understanding the formation of financial networks. -- Interbank markets ; intermediation … ; networks ; tiering ; core and periphery ; market structure …
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