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Lighthouse principle for diffusion in social networks

Publication Date
2018-January-01
Document Type
article
Authors
Azimipoor, Sanaz
Naumov, Pavel
Department or Program
Computer Science Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

The article investigates an influence relation between two sets of agents in a social network. It proposes a logical system that captures propositional properties of this relation valid in all threshold models of social networks with the same structure. The...

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Temporary employment decisions of registered nurses

Publication Date
1997-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

The decision whether or not to work for a temporary agency was examined using a 1990 cross-section survey of Illinois registered nurses and a model which corrects for the simultaneity between agency choice and wages (and benefits). Conditional on having...

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The effect of temporary nursing services on the supply of labor to nursing

Publication Date
1997-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Do temporary nursing agencies cause labor supply to nursing to be greater or less than it otherwise would be? Using cross-section survey data from 1984, 1988, and 1992, this question is examined within a nine-equation system capable of estimating hours...

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The supply of labor to full-time and part-time nursing

Publication Date
1995-May-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

A model incorporating a discrete full-time/part-time/do not work labor choice and decomposing labor supply into its full-time and part-time components was used to examine the increase in labor supplied by nurses (the increase per nurse on average) over the 1977-88...

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