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Playing with the social network: Social cohesion in resettled and non-resettled communities in Cambodia

Gobien, Simone; Vollan, Björn - 2013

their socio-demographic attributes and pre-existing network ties are similar. We use a version of the "solidarity game" to …-resettled players. The effect remains large and significant after controlling for personal network and when controlling for differences …

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Perceived Influence and Friendship as Antecedents of Cooperation in Top Management Teams: A Network Approach

Rank, Olaf N.; Tuschke, Anja - In: BuR - Business Research 3 (2010) 2, pp. 151-171

cooperation is proposed. The empirical analyses draw on network data that have been collected among all members of the top two …

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Hanging Together, Together Hung? Career Implications of Interpersonal Ties Between CEOs and Top Managers

Hilger, Stefan; Richter, Ansgar; Schäffer, Utz - In: BuR - Business Research 6 (2013) 1, pp. 8-32

Is it good or bad for senior executives to have strong interpersonal ties to the CEO? We argue that a strong relationship with the CEO raises the likelihood that a top manager stays in office or makes an upward career move when the CEO leaves office voluntarily. At the same time, such...

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The Strength of Direct Ties: Evidence from the Electronic Game Industry

Claussen, Jörg; Falck, Oliver; Grohsjean, Thorsten - 2011

calculate social network measures for a developer’s connectedness to other developers at multiple points in time. In a … regression in which we exploit within-career variation in social network measures, we find that the number of direct ties a …

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Das Graduiertennetzwerk im Programm "Lernkultur Kompetenzentwicklung": Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen

Baldauf-Bergmann, Kristine; Biele Mefebue, Astrid; … - 2006

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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 69-89

This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on...

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Migrant Networks and Migration Policy: A “Grease or Sand the Wheel” Relationship?

de Coulon, Augustin; Radu, Dragos - In: CESifo DICE Report 09 (2011) 4, pp. 32-36

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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain

Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2012

This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly...

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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset and endogenous dynamics

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012

A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … network. Consequently, would-be migrants in the sending country will form a multitude of networks, rather than a single grand …

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Co-national and transnational networks in international migration to Spain

Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel - 2012

and destination province. Our findings imply that the literature estimating network effects in migration has been overly …

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