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Wie weit geht Crowdsourcing? : transnationale Open-Innovation-Strategien gegen den Braindrain der GUS-Staaten
Roth, Steffen; Ströhle, Lorenza - 2016
Vor dem Hintergrund der Abwanderung hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte aus den GUS-Staaten zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit … anhand der Arbeitsweise zweier Schweizer Open- Innovation-Dienstleister, wie Open-Innovation- und Crowdsourcing …-Strategien nachhaltige Vorteile aus der exzellenten Bildungsinfrastruktur der GUS-Staaten schöpfen können. …
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Is unemployment a consequence of social interactions? Seeking for a common research framework for economists and other social scientists
Tolciu, Andreia - 2008
This article aims to summarize the existing body of literature on social interactions and their effect on individual unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the importance of social networks in the job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305474
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What a difference peers can make: The impact of social (work) norms on unemployment duration
Tolciu, Andreia - 2009
This article outlines a model of how social interactions among persons belonging to the same region might influence the individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be enhanced through social work norms shared by peers within the group. Building on a range of German data sets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305489
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307367
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Boundedly rational opinion dynamics in social networks: Does indegree matter?
Battiston, Pietro; Stanca, Luca - 2015
This paper investigates opinion dynamics and social influence in directed communication networks. We study the theoretical properties of a boundedly rational model of opinion formation in which individuals aggregate the information they receive from their neighbors by using weights that are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335941
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties
Picard, Pierre; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400636
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Economic action in South Korea: An heuristic attempt
Lee-Peuker, Mi-Yong - 2004
This paper presents an heuristics of economic action in South Korea which is based on a qualitative study conducted on-site. It focuses on the idea of experience-near concepts - as introduced by Clifford Geertz - and is verbalised by the terms affiliation, indebtedness and mediation. The...
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Strong Ties in a Small World
van der Leij, Marco; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation
Buhai, Sebastian; van der Leij, Marco - 2006
This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...
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Social networks and wages: It is all about connections!
Sylos Labini, Mauro - 2005
Empirical evidence suggests that networks of personal relations are important in the micro dynamics of labor markets: even in modern capitalistic economies a high share of jobs are filled by social referrals. This paper aims at shedding light on an apparent puzzle concerning the relationship...
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