internal promotions and job-to-job mobility. Both, formal applications and referral hiring via endogenous social networks, can … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … level management positions of firms. Our results suggest that endogenously forming homophilous social networks when female …

the exchange of knowledge. Our paper relies on two theoretical concepts. First, we apply the global cluster networks … small actors have been chosen as partners in collaborative R&D networks across Europe. …

. Particularly, the question of the relationship between geography and networks has been debated. Yet, at the inter-regional level …, there is no study assessing the effect of networks on the the value of knowledge flows. This may come from the fact that … methodological tools assessing network characteristics at the dyadic level are lacking for aggregated networks (such as the network …