The interactions between on-the-job search and finding a job through social contacts are investigated in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search model with heterogeneous wages. Workers may find a job through their social contacts and on the formal market. The presence of social contacts increases...

Empirical descriptions and studies suggest that generally depositors observe a sample of previous decisions before deciding if to keep their funds deposited or to withdraw them. These observed decisions may exhibit different degrees of correlation across depositors. In our model depositors are...

Empirical descriptions and studies suggest that generally depositors observe a sample of previous decisions before deciding if to keep their funds deposited or to withdraw them. These observed decisions may exhibit different degrees of correlation across depositors. In our model depositors are...

A labor market model with heterogeneous workers and jobs is provided to investigate the effects of social networks as a job information channel regarding the level of mismatch between workers and firms. I compare the efficiency in producing good matches of the formal market to that of social...

Societies today are increasingly reliant on whistleblowing to uncover unfair practices. For policy design it is therefore essential to better understand the impact of socio-psychological factors on whistleblowing propensity. We use an experimental setup to explore the role of “Diffusion of...

We study the assimilation of ethnic minority individuals to the native labor market and the impact of integration policies on assimilation. In our model, ethnic individuals choose between 1. entrepreneurship, 2. assimilating to the native labor market, and 3. being employed by co-ethnic...

In this paper, we analyze the collaboration network among Chinese economists for the period between 2010 and 2021, during which the economics profession has gone through a great transformation in China. We collect publication data from more than 350 journals using the Scopus and CNKI databases,...

We study the impact of segregation in social networks on the disparities in labor market outcomes between Black and White workers. We provide a dynamic search and matching model of the labor market where we incorporate two kinds of network effects: i) job finding through social contacts and ii)...