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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284029
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Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets
Fainmesser, Itay - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2010
fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We o¤er 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 e¢ cient … design of the matching procedure can prevent unraveling. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692034
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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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Multilateral matching
Hatfield, John William; Kominers, Scott Duke - In: Journal of Economic Theory 156 (2015) C, pp. 175-206
We introduce a matching model in which agents engage in joint ventures via multilateral contracts. This approach allows us to consider production complementarities previously outside the scope of matching theory. We show analogues of the first and second welfare theorems and, when agents'...
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Bottleneck links, essential intermediaries, and competing paths of diffusion in networks
Manea, Mihai - In: Theoretical Economics 16 (2021) 3, pp. 1017-1053
among sellers. In dense networks, competition limits the scope of indirect appropriability and intellectual property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189086
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Bottleneck links, essential intermediaries, and competing paths of diffusion in networks
Manea, Mihai - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 3, pp. 1017-1053
among sellers. In dense networks, competition limits the scope of indirect appropriability and intellectual property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806313
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Social networks and unraveling in labor markets
Fainmesser, Itay - 2010
design of the matching procedure can prevent unraveling. -- Networks ; market design ; unraveling ; entry-level labor markets … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669960
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044668
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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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Understanding Organized Crime Networks: Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret Files on American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2010
Using unique data on criminal profiles of 800 US Mafia members active in the 50s and 60s and on their connections within the Cosa Nostra network we analyze how the geometry of criminal ties between mobsters depends on family ties, community roots and ties, legal and illegal activities. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674209