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« If you love me, follow me. » Sibling's migration in France, 1870-1940

Lionel, KESZTENBAUM - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2007

Recent works emphasize the role of the family in migration decisions. They particularly insist on the specific schedule of mobility that depends not only on individual life-cycle but also on the situation of the whole family at a given time. French military registers provide us with very...

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What discourages participation in the lay judge system (Saiban'in seido) of Japan? : an interaction effect between the secrecy requirement and social network.

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The lay judge system, a quasi-jury system, was introduced in Japan from May 2009. This paper attempts to analyze Japanese people’s attitude about the lay judge system by examining whether they show a willingness to serve as a lay judge. The major findings from regression analysis are: (1) In...

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Do Competitive Environments Lead to the Rise and Spread of Unethical Behavior? Parallels from Enron

Kulik, Brian; Michael O’Fallon; Salimath, Manjula - In: Journal of Business Ethics 83 (2008) 4, pp. 703-723

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Sense in sociability? Maternal education, social capital and child schooling in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - In: The European Journal of Development Research 20 (2008) 3, pp. 482-496

Using detailed micro-data on social relations and networks from rural Bangladesh, this paper examines the social …

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Network Evolution in Cultural Industries

Staber, Udo - In: Industry and Innovation 15 (2008) 5, pp. 569-578

Most of the research on social networks in cultural industries has taken an actor-centered perspective on individuals and organizations, often based on the (implicit) assumption of relative stability in actor attributes and relationships. This poses problems for an understanding of networks in a...

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Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea

Kern, Thomas; Nam, Sang-hui - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

This article aims to further develop the field of innovation studies by exploring the emergence of citizen journalism in South Korea’s social movement sector. To achieve this aim, the framework of innovation theory has been extended to innovations in social fields beyond technology and the...

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Strong Ties in a Small World

Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity …

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The Gender Dimensions of Social Networks, Unemployment and Underemployment: What Time Use Data Reveal

Floro, Maria Sagrario; Valodia, Imraan; Komatsu, Hitomi - 2008

Utilizing time use data for exploring the issue of employment (or lack thereof) – a critical pathway for increased … incomes for the poor - has received little attention in economic analysis. Using data from the 2000 South African national … time use survey, this paper examines the value of time use data in policy discussions related to understanding people …

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Car Driving and Public Transit Use in Canadian Metropolitan Areas: Focus on Elderly and Role of Health and Social Network Factors

Mercado, Ruben G.; Newbold, K. Bruce - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

Most studies analyzed the impact of decreased mobility on health and social network status, but only a few have provided evidence to understand how these latter factors could affect travel decisions or outcomes. This paper examined the linkage between people’s car driving and public transit...

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Competing for Customers in a Social Network

Dubey, Pradeep; Garg, Rahul; Meyer, Bernard De - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2006

There are many situations in which a customer's proclivity to buy the product of any firm depends not only on the classical attributes of the product such as its price and quality, but also on who else is buying the same product. We model these situations as games in which firms compete for...

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