Network formations among immigrants and natives

Arbeitspapier

In this paper we examine possible network formations among immigrants and natives with endogenous investment. We consider a model of a network formation where the initiator of the link bears its cost while both agents benefit from it. We present the model by considering possible interactions between immigrants and the new society in the host country: assimilation, separation, integration and marginalization. The paper highlights different aspects of immigrants' behavior and their interaction with the members of the host country (society) and their source country (society). We found that when the stock of the immigrants in the host country increases, the immigrants' investment in the middlemen increases and the natives may bear the cost of link formation with the middlemen.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4234

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Network Formation and Analysis: Theory ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; International Migration ; Sociology of Economics
• Subject: Network formations ; social networks ; assimilation and separation ; Migranten ; Soziale Integration ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Gesellschaft ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Epstein, Gil S. ; Heizler, Odelia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35699
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090622165
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET