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Social networks and unraveling in labor markets
Fainmesser, Itay P. - 2010
fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We offer 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 efficient … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086405
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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333271
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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239272
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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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Spillovers in criminal networks : evidence from co-offender deaths
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2024
We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739413
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672211
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Matching on Bipartite Graphs
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2015
We study stable matchings on exogenously given or endogenously formed bipartite graphs that reflect constraints on matching. The effects of a change of the exogenously given graph (constraints) are investigated. Specifically, we examine to what extent individuals gain or lose from relaxing...
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Gainers and Losers from Market Integration
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2019
We compare integration of economic, matching and networking markets. There can be losers from integration in all three cases, but their relative numbers depend on the type of market. There can be many losers from integration of pure exchange economies. There are relatively few losers from...
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