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Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that migration...
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This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combined with an extensive survey of...
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The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependence on social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant policy consequences. We use detailed micro-data on multiple-origin ethnic minorities in England and...
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-in-means model where each individual has his own specific reference group. Interactions are thus structured through a social network … exogenous effects are generally identified under network interaction, although identification may fail for some particular … structures. Monte Carlo simulations provide an analysis of the effects of some crucial characteristics of a network (i …
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2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be attributed to network effects. That is, we examine the relationship …
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are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables. Correlation of unobservables …
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This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...
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We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network … Survey (Add Health) to construct two network definitions that are less ad hoc than the school-grade cohorts commonly used in … the educational peer effects literature. We demonstrate that accurate definitions of the peer network seriously impact …
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Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph … non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he will exert. Using the network model developed by Ballester et al. (2006 … characterization of optimal single player network removal for delinquency reduction, the key player, to optimal group removal, the key …
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first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is … network specific factors, the individual's position in a network (as measured by her Katz-Bonacich centrality) is a key …
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