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Monash University
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University of Southampton
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Monash University - Caulfield Campus
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Microeconomic Theory | Labour Economics | Economic Theory | Welfare Economics | Applied Economics |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Consumption | Microeconomics not elsewhere classified | Ecological Economics | Micro Labour Market Issues
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Publications
City Structure, Job Search and Labour Discrimination: Theory and Policy Implications
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-2006
Spatial mismatch, transport mode and search decisions in England
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2005
Job contact networks and the ethnic minorities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Urban Labor Economic Theory
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2007
Urban Crime and Ethnicity
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 14-01-2012
Job matching, social network and word-of-mouth communication
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2005
Local and consistent centrality measures in parameterized networks
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
The role of cultural leaders in the transmission of preferences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Dual Labor Markets, Urban Unemployment, and Multicentric Cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1997
Economic Analyses of Social Networks
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Date: 29-03-2013
Intergenerational correlation and social interactions in education
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Racial Discrimination and Redlining in Cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2000
Migration and development: Insights from the 3rd AFD-World Bank Migration and Development Conference
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
Urban search models under high-relocation costs. Theory and application to spatial mismatch
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2009
Let's Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water: The Role of Urban Villages in Housing Rural Migrants in China
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2008
Abstract: In the era of China's economic growth and urbanisation, providing adequate and affordable housing for rural—urban migrants in urban areas is crucial for the success of China's multifaceted reforms. Yet the urban housing provision system has overlooked the needs of rural migrants since the reforms. Urbanising villages, a unique product of China's urbanisation and land reform, provide affordable housing for rural migrants. However, these urbanising villages are rejected by policy-makers due to their associated social and environment problems. In this paper, a multinomial logit model of housing type choice is adopted, in which people choose from a number of mutually exclusive housing types. Regression results indicate that rural migrants are shunned by the urban housing market. It is argued that, without accompanying programmes that include rural migrants in the urban housing market, policies that focus on demolishing urbanising villages could be misguided.
Social Interactions and the Labor Market
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 06-2013
Cultural transmission and discrimination
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
Illegal migration and policy enforcement
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-12-2009
DOI: 10.1093/JLEO/EWP038
Private versus public schools in post-Apartheid South African cities: theory and policy implications
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2003
RACIAL BELIEFS, LOCATION, AND THE CAUSES OF CRIME*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2004
Multiple Activities in Networks
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 08-2018
DOI: 10.1257/MIC.20160253
Abstract: We consider a network model where in iduals exert efforts in two types of activities that are interdependent. These activities can be either substitutes or complements. We provide a full characterization of the Nash equilibrium of this game for any network structure. We show, in particular, that quadratic games with linear best-reply functions aggregate nicely to multiple activities because equilibrium efforts obey similar formulas to that of the one-activity case. We then derive some comparative-statics results showing how own productivity affects equilibrium efforts and how network density impacts equilibrium outcomes. (JEL C72, D11, D85, Z13)
How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2002
Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2010
The strength of weak ties in crime
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2008
ERRATA CORRIGE: “ARE MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION?”
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 23-09-2011
Static and dynamic networks in interbank markets
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-02-2015
DOI: 10.1017/NWS.2015.1
Abstract: This paper proposes a model of network interactions in the interbank market. Our innovation is to model systemic risk in the interbank network as the propagation of incentives or strategic behavior rather than the propagation of losses after default. Transmission in our model is not based on default. Instead, we explain bank profitability based on competition incentives and the outcome of a strategic game. As competitors' lending decisions change, banks adjust their own decisions as a result: generating a “transmission” of shocks through the system. We provide a unique equilibrium characterization of a static model, and embed this model into a full dynamic model of network formation. We also determine the key bank, which is the bank that is crucial for the stability of the financial network.
Why is central Paris rich and downtown Detroit poor?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1999
Space and Unemployment: The Labor‐Market Effects of Spatial Mismatch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1086/344129
Spatial dependence in local unemployment rates
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-2007
DOI: 10.1093/JEG/LBM001
RSUE Editorial Transition Statement
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Delinquent Networks
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-2010
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CRIME DECISIONS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN FACILITATING DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2004
Who is the Key Player? A Network Analysis of Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2020
Heterogeneous peer effects in education
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Erratum to “Demand uncertainty, mismatch and (un)employment” [Economic Letters 88 (2005) 33–39]
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2005
Strong and weak ties in employment and crime
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2007
The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701540937
Abstract: The spatial mismatch hypothesis (SMH) argues that low-skilled minorities residing in US inner cities experience poor labour market outcomes because they are disconnected from suburban job opportunities. This assumption gave rise to an abundant empirical literature, which is rather supportive of the SMH. Surprisingly, it is only recently that theoretical models have emerged, which probably explains why the mechanisms of spatial mismatch have long remained unclear and not properly tested. This article presents relevant facts, reviews the theoretical models of spatial mismatch, confronts their predictions with available empirical results and indicates which mechanisms deserve further empirical tests.
Endogenous peer effects: local aggregate or local average?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of immigrants in Europe
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2011
Search, wage posting and urban spatial structure
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 15-12-2009
DOI: 10.1093/JEG/LBP063
Games on Networks
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
R&D Networks: Theory, Empirics, and Policy Implications
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 07-2019
DOI: 10.1162/REST_A_00762
Abstract: We analyze a model of R& D alliance networks where firms are engaged in R& D collaborations that lower their production costs while competing on the product market. We provide a complete characterization of the Nash equilibrium and determine the optimal R& D subsidy program that maximizes total welfare. We then structurally estimate this model using a unique panel of R& D collaborations and annual company reports. We use our estimates to study the impact of targeted versus nondiscriminatory R& D subsidy policies and empirically rank firms according to the welfare-maximizing subsidies they should receive.
Ethnic diversity, market structure and risk sharing in developing countries
Publisher: Emerald (MCB UP )
Date: 2006
A discrete-time stochastic model of job matching
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2003
Endogenous job destruction and job matching in cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2009
Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT: THEORY AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2011
Market competition and discrimination
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2023
Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-2008
Peers, gender, and long-term depression
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Key Player Policies When Contextual Effects Matter
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2014
A dynamic efficiency wage model with learning by doing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2000
Introduction to the special issue in honor of Jacques Thisse
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
Strong versus weak ties in migration
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Wage Competition with Heterogeneous Workers and Firms
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 07-2000
DOI: 10.1086/209966
The impact of network topology and market structure on pricing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Job search and mobility in developing countries. Theory and policy implications
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2008
HOW DO DIFFERENCES IN PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN CITIES AFFECT URBAN SPRAWL?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2009
Friendship and Female Education: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladeshi Primary Schools
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-11-2019
DOI: 10.1093/EJ/UEZ064
Abstract: We randomly assigned 115 primary schools in Bangladesh to one of two settings: children studying in groups with friends and children studying in groups with peers. The groups consisted of four people with similar average cognitive abilities and household characteristics. While the achievement of male students was not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females with friends outperformed low-ability females working with peers by roughly 0.4 standard deviations of the test score distribution. This is not due to the fact that friends tend to be of the same gender or to a higher frequency of interactions among friends.
How do firms redline workers?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2002
International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2013
FROM ASSORTATIVE TO DISSORTATIVE NETWORKS: THE ROLE OF CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 08-2010
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525910002700
Abstract: We consider a dynamic model of network formation where agents form and sever links based on the centrality of their potential partners. We show that the existence of capacity constrains in the amount of links an agent can maintain introduces a transition from dissortative to assortative networks. This effect can shed light on the distinction between technological and social networks as it gives a simple mechanism explaining how and why this transition occurs.
Nestedness in networks: A theoretical model and some applications
Publisher: The Econometric Society
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.3982/TE1348
Assimilation patterns in cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Urban villages and housing values in China
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
Urban Labor Economics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2001
Abstract: This book studies the links between urban economics and labor economics. Different models of urban labor economic theory are examined in the initial two parts of this book: first urban search-matching models and then urban efficiency wages. These models are then used to analyze urban ghettos and their consequences for ethnic minorities in the labor market. Professor Zenou first provides different mechanisms for the so-called spatial mismatch hypothesis, which postulates that housing discrimination introduces a key frictional factor that prevents minorities from improving access to job opportunities by relocating their residences closer to jobs. He then explores social networks, which tend to be affected by spatial factors, as workers who are physically close to jobs can be socially far away from them. Based on these models, the author offers different policies aiming at fighting high unemployment rates experienced by ethnic minorities residing in segregated areas.
How important is access to jobs? Old question--improved answer
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 30-07-2009
DOI: 10.1093/JEG/LBP040
Housing policies in China: Issues and options*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2012
The role of social networks in cultural assimilation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
Are shirking and leisure substitutable? An empirical test of efficiency wages based on urban economic theory
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2008
Ethnic networks and employment outcomes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
Spatial versus social mismatch
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2013
Demand uncertainty, mismatch and (un)employment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2005
Formation and persistence of oppositional identities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Racial identity and education in social networks
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Search in cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2009
Harris-Todaro models with a land market
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1999
Leaders in juvenile crime
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Social norms in networks
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
On the sources of the black–white test score gap in Europe
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2009
Out of sight, out of mind: Migration, entrepreneurship and social capital
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
Efficiency wages, involuntary unemployment and urban spatial structure
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1995
NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF EDUCATION*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-03-2011
Social Connectedness and Local Contagion
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-05-2021
Abstract: We study a coordination game among agents in a network. The agents choose whether to take action (e.g. adopting a new technology) in an uncertain environment that yields increasing value in the actions of neighbours. We develop an algorithm that fully partitions the network into communities (coordination sets) within which agents have the same propensity to adopt. Our main finding is that a novel measure of network connectedness, which we term “social connectedness,” determines the propensity to adopt for each agent. Social connectedness captures both the number of links each agent has within her community (interconnectedness) as well as the number of links she has with members of other communities who have a higher propensity to adopt (embeddedness). There is a single coordination set if and only if the network is balanced—that is, the average degree of each subnetwork is no larger than the average degree of the network. Finally, we demonstrate that contagion is localized within coordination sets, such that a shock to an agent uniformly affects this agent and all members of her coordination set but has no impact on the other agents in the network.
LOCAL LABOR MARKETS, JOB MATCHING, AND URBAN LOCATION*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2002
Property tax and urban sprawl: Theory and implications for US cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2006
Oppositional identities and the labor market
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-10-2006
Urban unemployment, agglomeration and transportation policies
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2000
Gender inequality and caste: Field experimental evidence from India
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Location and Education in South African Cities under and after Apartheid
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2001
Skill mismatch and unemployment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2000
On the Endogeneous Formation of Secondary Employment Centers in a City
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1997
Spatial mismatch, search effort, and urban spatial structure
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2003
Neighborhood and Network Effects
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Search activities, cost of living and local labor markets
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2006
Simulation of crack healing in BCC Fe
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2004
Density, social networks and job search methods: Theory and application to Egypt
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2005
Networks in Economics
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Labor Differentiation and Agglomeration in General Equilibrium
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-11-2012
Abstract: The aim of this article is to explore the structure of cities as a function of labor differentiation, gains to trade, a fixed cost for constructing the transportation network, a variable cost of commodity transport, and the commuting costs of consumers. Firms use different types of labor to produce different outputs. Locations of all agents are endogenous as are prices and quantities. This is among the first articles to apply smooth economy techniques to urban economics. Existence of equilibrium and its determinacy properties depend crucially on the relative numbers of outputs, types of labor, and firms. More differentiated labor implies more equilibria. We provide tight lower bounds on labor differentiation for existence of equilibrium. If these sufficient conditions are satisfied, then generically there is a continuum of equilibria for given parameter values. Finally, an equilibrium allocation is not necessarily Pareto optimal in this model.
Cultural leader and the dynamics of assimilation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Network games with incomplete information
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Efficiency wages and unemployment in cities: The case of high-relocation costs
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2006
The Importance of the Distribution of Consumers in Horizontal Product Differentiation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2002
The Spatial Aspects of Crime
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-2003
Price competition in product variety networks
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
Organized crime, corruption and punishment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2005
Mothers, Peers, and Gender-Role Identity
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 15-12-2018
DOI: 10.1093/JEEA/JVY050
Abstract: We study whether a woman’s labor supply as a young adult is shaped by the work behavior of her adolescent peers’ mothers. Using detailed information on a s le of U.S. teenagers who are followed over time, we find that labor force participation of high school peers’ mothers affects adult women’s labor force participation, above and beyond the effect of their own mothers. The analysis suggests that women who were exposed to a larger number of working mothers during adolescence are less likely to feel that work interferes with family responsibilities. This perception, in turn, is important for whether they work when they have children.
Bid Rents under Unemployment Risk: Delayed versus Timeless Uncertainty
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1997
Competitive pricing strategies in social networks
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-08-2018
Who's Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player
Publisher: The Econometric Society
Date: 09-2006
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University Of Southampton
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102840
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 07-2022
Amount: $230,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 06-2020
End Date: 05-2024
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