Homophily and the glass ceiling effect in social networks

ITCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 6th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 41-50

  Avin, Chen ^a   Keller, Barbara ^b   Lotker, Zvi ^a   Mathieu, Claire ^c   Peleg, David ^d   Pignolet, Yvonne Anne ^e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glass ceiling; Homophily; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CEILINGS; GLASS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GLASS CEILING; HOMOPHILY; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENT MODEL; RICH GET RICHER; STUDENT NETWORK; SUB-POPULATIONS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84961318431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2688073.2688097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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