Social Interactions in the Labor Market
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market
Description: Social Interactions in the Labor Market addresses the following questions: How do theoretical economic models and their associated econometric representations change when there are social interactions among households? How do policy implications change as the result of estimated households' social interactions? The authors present a unified theoretical and empirical representation ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1547-9846,1547-9854
DOI: 10.1561/0700000045