Measuring the importance of labor market networks
By: Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney, David Neumark.
Contributors: McInerney, Melissa.; Neumark, David.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14201; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14201.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level.  We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by residential proximity.  The evidence indicates that labor market networks play an important role in hiring, more so for minorities and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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