Agent-based modelling of social networks in labour-education market system. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander Tarvid.
• Authors: Tarvid, Alexander
• Contents: Preface; Contents; 1 Social Networks and Labour-Education Market System; 1.1 Social Networks; 1.1.1 Required Minimum from the Graph Theory; 1.1.2 Creating, Maintaining and Dissolving Social Ties; 1.1.3 Structure of Social Networks; 1.2 Individual Behaviour in the Education Market; 1.2.1 Individual Aspects: Ability, Sex and Personality; 1.2.2 Social Environment: Family, Social Class and Social Networks; 1.2.3 Monetary Costs and Benefits; 1.3 Individual Behaviour in the Labour Market; 1.3.1 Methods of Job Search and Recruitment; 1.3.2 Overeducation; 1.3.3 Quitting the Job. 2 Complex Adaptive Systems and Agent-Based Modelling2.1 What Is Agent-Based Modelling?; 2.2 Why to Use Agent-Based Modelling ... ; 2.2.1 ... for Modelling Complex Adaptive Systems?; 2.2.2 ... If Traditional Economic Modelling Exists?; 2.2.3 ... If Other Simulation Methods Exist?; 2.3 How to Do ABM?; 2.3.1 From Goal to Implementation; 2.3.2 Parametrisation and Calibration: Setting Parameters; 2.3.3 Validation: Checking the Model; 2.3.4 Running the Model; 2.3.5 Analysing Output and Its Sensitivity; 2.4 Limitations of ABM; 3 Using Agent-Based Modelling in Studying Labour-Education Market System. 3.1 Modelling Education Market3.1.1 Modelling the Structure of Education System; 3.1.2 Modelling the Willingness to Study and the Application Step; 3.1.3 Modelling the Outcomes of the Willingness to Study; 3.2 Modelling Labour Market; 3.2.1 Skipping Firms and the Vacancy Mechanism; 3.2.2 Adding Firms and the Vacancy Mechanism; 3.2.3 Modelling Firm Dynamics; 3.3 Modelling Social Network; 3.3.1 Adapting a Network Generation Algorithm; 3.3.2 Defining Tie Creation and Destruction Principles; 3.3.3 Calibrating the Network Structure; 3.4 To Embed or Not to Embed?; Concluding Remarks; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 006.3; Economics; Multiagent systems; School choice; Labor market; COMPUTERS -- General; Labor market; Multiagent systems; School choice; Mathematics -- Game Theory; Science -- System Theory; Game theory; Social research & statistics; Mathematical physics; Management science; Labor economics; Mathematics; Business & Economics -- Labor; Labour economics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319265391; 3319265393
• Related ISBNs: 9783319265377; 3319265377
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 16, 2015).
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