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Knowledge exchange in hybrid communities : a social capital-based approach. : evidence from Latvia
Sechi, Guido; Šķilters, Jurǵis; Borri, Dino; De … - 2012
sharing and enrichment in the republic of Latvia. Which kind of links - physical or virtual ones - are more efficient and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515665
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Estimating call externalities in mobile telephony : conference paper
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Sobolewski, Maciej - 2016 - Version 01/09/2016
Recent theoretical models of network competition with call externalities demonstrate strategic incentives of incumbent providers to reduce receiver benefits in rival network by excessive off-net pricing. Such anti-competitive pricing practices have a potentially damaging impact on financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606100
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Big data analytics, the social graph, and unjust algorithmic discrimination : tensions between privacy and open data
Winter, Jenifer Sunrise - 2015
This paper examines threats to privacy and anonymity accompanying underlying technical changes related to the Internet …, reidentification, and subsequent informational harms. The algorithms and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication employed in big data … in public affairs, and hinder public participation in democratic discourse. Legal and policy barriers to citizen privacy …
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Employee monitoring in the digital era : managing the impact of innovation
McParland, Cliona; Connolly, Regina - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 548-557
impacts. One of these is the steady erosion of privacy. For example monitoring and surveillance has become a fundamental part … added a dystopian edge to existing employee privacy concerns, particularly as many employees are unable to exercise choice … both management rationale for monitoring as well as employee privacy concerns in an effort to balance the perspectives of …
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Cultural heritage and the location choice of Dutch households in a residential sorting model
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2011
Local amenities are an important factor in the location choice of households. Heterogeneity in preferences of households tends to sort households over different locations which satisfy best their preferences given their constraints. In this paper, we analyze the effect of cultural heritage on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543251
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Creative professionals and high-skilled agents' : polarization of employment growth? : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain
Wedemeier, Jan - 2011
The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that the clustering of human capital might result in the polarization of economic development. Since the creative sector's de nition is motivated from the insights of the economics...
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Acculturational homophily in friendships based on English-name usage : a natural experiment
Xu, Dafeng - 2015
This paper examines acculturational homophily in friendships of international students. Acculturation (also known as cultural assimilation) is measured by English-name usage. I use data from Renren.com, a Facebook-type social networking site based in China. The sample consists of students who...
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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
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Nikel and Kirkenes : twin city pair over the Polar Circle : outline for European Regional Science Association Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, 26-29 August 2014
Mikhailova, Ekaterina - 2014
The paper is devoted to the issue of twin-cities using this term in a narrow sense, with geographical proximity as an important criterion (as opposed to the broad sense of the twin-cities where the distance between cooperating cities doesn't matter). The paper is based on academic literature and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487033
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Sorting based on amenities and income composition : evidence on the multiplier effect
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan - 2013
Recent research shows that urban heritage can be an important factor of residential location choice, and that especially highly educated households are attracted by the presence of cultural heritage. In this paper, we use a location choice model to investigate the attractiveness of neighborhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553821