Social status refers to the relative position within the society. It is an important notion in sociology and related research. The problem of measuring social status has been studied for many years. Various indicators are proposed to assess social status of individuals, including educational attainment, occupation, and income/wealth. However, these indicators are sometimes difficult to collect ...

Market intermediaries are usually thought of as bringing together buyers and sellers. However, intermediaries may also connect these principals with other professionals who can provide assistance with and support for the transaction. We address the question of which set of ties—to buyers and sellers or to other professionals—are more important to the success of market intermediaries, using data...

Social networks are often composed of different types of nodes. Learning and performing inference on such heterogeneous networks is a recent task. We address the tasks of tagging of nodes in social networks, where the different types of nodes have to be labeled by different set of categories or tags. We propose a new transductive approach that automatically learns to project the different types...

Nowadays the audience’s behaviors and reactions to health-related messages are of great importance. The present research aimed at studying the effect of health-related messages on the behaviors of social networks audiences according to attention, interest, desire, action model. The study used structural equation modeling to analyze the gathered data. The data were collected from the audiences o...

This paper studies the phenomenon of early hiring in entry-level labor markets (e.g. the market for gastroenterology fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We o¤er a two-stage model in which workers in training institutions reveal information on their own ability over time. In the early stage, workers receive a noisy signal about their own ability. T...

This paper examines the effect of social networks on the labor market outcomes of recent immigrants using new measures of the quality of immigrant networks. The empirical analysis provides robust evidence that immigrants who are members of ethnic enclaves are much more likely to be employed, and much more likely to be employed in the same firm as their geographic neighbors, than are other immig...