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Occupational mismatch and social networks
Horváth, Gergely - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 442-468
. This study shows that as the fraction of ties connecting similar agents (homophily) increases, the level of mismatch …
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On the optimal diversification of social networks in frictional labour markets with occupational mismatch
Zaharieva, Anna - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 50 (2018), pp. 112-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129606
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Double matching : social contacts in a labour market with on-the-job search ; conference paper
Zaharieva, Anna - 2013
This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the...
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Occupational mismatch and social networks
Horvath, Gergely - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 106 (2014), pp. 442-468
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500971
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Social networks and labor market inequality between ethnicities and races
Toomet, Ott; Leij, Marco van der; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724344
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Immigration, social networks and occupational mismatch
Alaverdyan, Sevak; Zaharieva, Anna - In: Economic modelling 114 (2022), pp. 1-26
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Marketing via friends: strategic diffusion of information in social networks with homophily
Chuhay, Roman - 2010
The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new … product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar … a number of results: (i) for low levels of homophily the product attractive to both types of consumers is preferred to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272373
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Proximity can induce diverse friendships: A large randomized classroom experiment
Rohrer, Julia Marie; Keller, Tamás; Elwert, Felix - 2020
Can outside interventions foster socio-culturally diverse friendships? We executed a large field experiment that randomized the seating charts of 182 primary-school classrooms (N=2,996 students) for the duration of one semester. We found that being seated next to each other increased the...
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Beyond connectivity: Stock market participation in a network
Balakina, Olga; Bäckman, Claes; Parakhoniak, Anastasiia - 2024
What are the aggregate and distributional consequences of the relationship between an individual's social network and financial decisions? Motivated by several well-documented facts about the influence of social connections on financial decisions, we build and calibrate a model of stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515204
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The economic consequences of social network structure
Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - 2016
We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...
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