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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …

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What are Migration Networks?

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant’s country in the host region. Using …

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The Formation of Migrant Networks

Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...

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High Speed Economy

Dumitrascu, Vadim; Dumitrascu, Roxana Arabela - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 5 (2013) Special 1, pp. 27-30

generates it is the organization of knowledge in the form of networks. The organizations competitiveness is marked by the …

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Price competition, free entry, and welfare in congested markets

Melo, Emerson - In: Games and Economic Behavior 83 (2014) C, pp. 53-72

In this paper we study the problem of price competition and free entry in congested markets. In particular, we consider a network with multiple origins and a common destination node, where each link is owned by a firm that sets prices in order to maximize profits, whereas users want to minimize...

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Approximate decomposition methods for the analysis of multicommodity flow routing in generalized queuing networks

Morabito, Reinaldo; Souza, Mauricio C. de; Vazquez, Mariana - In: European Journal of Operational Research 232 (2014) 3, pp. 618-629

open queuing networks (OQN), in which commodities enter the network, receive service at one or more arcs and then leave the …

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The impact of demographic distance and network ties on individual turnover of professional employees

BOGAERT, Sandy; BOONE, Christophe; VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN, Arjen - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2009

Organizational demographers found that people who are demographically different from their colleagues, are most likely to leave. To explain this fact, demography and network ties are generally treated as equivalent. Critics claim that the use of demographics as a substitute for network ties is...

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Efficiency in repeated games with local interaction and uncertain local monitoring

Nava, Francesco; Piccione, Michele - In: Theoretical Economics 9 (2014) 1

The paper discusses community enforcement in infinitely repeated, two-action games with local interaction and uncertain monitoring. Each player interacts with and observes only a fixed set of opponents, of whom he is privately informed. The main result shows that when beliefs about the...

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Strategic Communication Networks

Hagenbach, Jeanne; Koessler, Frédéric - HAL - 2009

communication network. We provide an explicit link between players' preferences and the equilibrium strategic communication networks … they communicate. Apart from some specific cases, the equilibrium communication networks are quite complex despite our … simple one-dimensional description of preference heterogeneity. In general, strategic communication networks cannot be …

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Immigration and the export decision to the home country

Koenig, Pamina - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of immigrants' networks on the decision of individual firms to starting exporting to the …

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