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dc.contributor.author | Brueckner, Jan Keith | en |
dc.contributor.author | Smirnov, Oleg | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T15:52:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T15:52:09Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18685 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper links the two nascent economic literatures on social networks and culturalassimilation by investigating the evolution of population attributes in a simple model whereagents are influenced by their acquaintances. The main conclusion of the analysis is thatattributes converge to a melting-pot equilibrium, where everyone is identical, provided thesocial network exhibits a sufficient degree of interconnectedness. When the model is extendedto allow an expanding acquaintance set, convergence is guaranteed provided a weakerinterconnectedness condition is satisfied, and convergence is rapid. If the intensity ofinteractions with acquaintances becomes endogenous, convergence (when it occurs) is slowedwhen agents prefer to interact with people like themselves and hastened when interaction withdissimilar agents is preferred. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCESifo Working Paper |x1320 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J10 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J00 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziale Integration | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziales Netzwerk | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.title | Workings of the melting pot : social networks and the evolution of population attributes | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 477391583 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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