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Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We consider a three-stage game to examine how market integration affects firms’ incentives to provide general worker training. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others’ workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes...

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When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate empirically how sellers react to changes in the population of their consumers, identifying the effects of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively increase the price of some products when they observe in...

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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model’s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...

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Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks … adopted in the literature. We derive bounds for the estimated direct and indirect effects of visa policies and networks that …

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Do Interventions Change the Network? A Panel Peer-Effect Model Accounting for Endogenous Network Changes

Comola, Margherita; Prina, Silvia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

. What if networks rewire in response to changes in the economic environment, such as a randomized intervention? We exploit a …

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Social Mobility and the Importance of Networks: Evidence for Britain

Marcenaro Gutierrez, Oscar; Micklewright, John; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Greater levels of social mobility are widely seen as desirable on grounds of both equity and efficiency. Debate on social mobility in Britain and elsewhere has recently focused on specific factors that might hinder social mobility, including the role of internships and similar employment...

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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...

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Giving and Sorting among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects – friend versus stranger – and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find – consistent with Leider et al....

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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia’s informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional … entrepreneurial activity. Our results support the notion of the limited effectiveness of Russia’s networks for supporting …

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