We use a purposely-designed survey on Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study their personal network. By taking … a dyadic perspective we investigate how migrants form (weak and strong) social links among them in the host country, and … the extent to which this network provides them material support along three different dimensions: accommodation, credit …

migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …

migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …

In this paper, we present a formal framework of possible network formations among immigrants. After arriving in the new …

) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they exert in some activity (say education). We show that the more central … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks … tend to favor assimilation so that, for example, it is easier to assimilate in a complete network than in a star …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …

power-law tail. A common explanation for this phenomenon is a random network formation process with preferential attachment … squares and Hill (1975) estimators in finite samples. We apply our estimation methodology to a co-authorship network …