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Occupational mismatch and social networks
Horvath, Gergely - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 106 (2014), pp. 442-468
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On the optimal diversification of social networks in frictional labour markets with occupational mismatch
Zaharieva, Anna - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 50 (2018), pp. 112-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129606
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Unemployment Flows, Participation and the Natural Rate for Turkey
Sengul, Gonul; Tasci, Murat - Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası - 2014
This paper measures flow rates into and out of unemployment for Turkey and uses these rates to estimate the unemployment rate trend, that is the level of the unemployment rate the economy converges to in the long-run. In doing so, the paper explores the role of the labor force participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941525
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Do workers really benefit from their social networks?.
Fontaine, François - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2004
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more «formal» methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510640
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Immigration, social networks and occupational mismatch
Alaverdyan, Sevak; Zaharieva, Anna - In: Economic modelling 114 (2022), pp. 1-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367586
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Marketing via friends: strategic diffusion of information in social networks with homophily
Chuhay, Roman - 2010
The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new … product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar … a number of results: (i) for low levels of homophily the product attractive to both types of consumers is preferred to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272373
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Proximity can induce diverse friendships: A large randomized classroom experiment
Rohrer, Julia Marie; Keller, Tamás; Elwert, Felix - 2020
Can outside interventions foster socio-culturally diverse friendships? We executed a large field experiment that randomized the seating charts of 182 primary-school classrooms (N=2,996 students) for the duration of one semester. We found that being seated next to each other increased the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604924
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Beyond connectivity: Stock market participation in a network
Balakina, Olga; Bäckman, Claes; Parakhoniak, Anastasiia - 2024
What are the aggregate and distributional consequences of the relationship between an individual's social network and financial decisions? Motivated by several well-documented facts about the influence of social connections on financial decisions, we build and calibrate a model of stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515204
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The economic consequences of social network structure
Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - 2016
We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794582
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Friendship networks and political opinions: A natural experiment among future French politicians
Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2019
quarter of the mean difference. It likely works through a homophily-enforced mechanism, by which friendship causes politically …
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