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The natural sciences have established a general scaling law that relates metabolism and body size of animals. Recently this association - known as Kleiber's law - has received deep theoretical foundation by network theory and has been fruitfully applied to explain various biological phenomena,...
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importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … residential proximity. The evidence indicates that labor market networks play an important role in hiring, more so for minorities … and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based. …
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using …
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
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This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the …
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using …
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