Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

We use a novel data set and identification strategy to empirically detect the presence and magnitude of local social interactions effects in the labor market. We argue that the use of informal referrals has implications for the spatial distribution of residential and work locations, that can then be used to test for the presence of such effects. Restricted access Census Bureau data for the Boston metropolitan area are used

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Year of publication:	2004-08-11
Authors:	Bayer, Patrick ; Ross, Stephen L.
Institutions:	Econometric Society
Subject:	Social Interactions \| Job Search \| Geography

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings 2004 Number 495
Classification:	J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; C21 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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