homophily-biased random network assumptions and trace the most probable relations of every employee over the full period. Then …

We propose a random network model incorporating heterogeneity of agents and a continuous notion of homophily. Unlike … the vast majority of the corresponding economic literature, we capture homophily in terms of similarity rather than … homophily levels. As a possible application we provide a stylized labor market model, where a firm can hire a worker via the …

We propose a random network model incorporating heterogeneity of agents and a continuous notion of homophily. Unlike … the vast majority of the corresponding economic literature, we capture homophily in terms of similarity rather than … characteristics. A homophily parameter directly determines the strength of this effect. As a main result, we show that for any …

average, children's homophily acts as a complement to the educational effort of highly educated parents but as a substitute … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus …

, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea that networks arise according to homophily along many characteristics …

higher resource flow as well as homophily reinforce decision-makers' ideological bias. We highlight that competing lobbyists …

more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …