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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721364
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The sociology of work : from industrial sociology to work, employment and the economy
Edwards, Paul K. - 2019
The paper reviews the progress of the sociology of work in Britain since 1945. It identifies two long … associated with the last, that the field suffers from fragmentation and lack of integration in mainstream sociology. It … analysis of developments at the top of the class structure, that is a sociology of managers and of capital, and those at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016290
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Strong ties in a small world
Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348344
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084672
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A note on height and surnames : the role of networks
Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Leeuwen, Bas van - 2013
Many studies indicate that human height is determined largely by childhood circumstances, which in turn influences an adult's labor market opportunities. The aim of this note is to test this thesis by examining the correlation between childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754858
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Coworkers, networks, and job search outcomes : conference paper
Saygın, Perihan Özge; Weber, Andrea; Weynandt, Michèle - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete
Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. In this paper investigate how displaced workers searching for new jobs benefit from information provided by their former coworkers. In line with the theoretical and empirical literature we find that the...
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Social and Household Networks in Sri Lanka : Does Networking Create a Disparity in Employment Outcomes
Perera, Mihindu - 2020
This paper estimates the impact of social and household networks on employment outcomes in Sri Lanka.The results indicate that social networks, measured by language choice and locality, improve employment outcomes by 0.01%-0.89%. Additionally, ethnicity and language fluency have significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844056
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Boys’ Club : Cultural Inheritance and Social Networks and their Effects on Labor Market outcomes
Hakak, Lorena; Alves, Nicole de; Lopes, Daniel - 2021
This study aims to identify the causal effect of cultural inheritance on formal labor market variables via the network effect. The identification strategy is based on an epidemiological approach to understanding cultural effects on economic variables that allows us to separate cultural aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312344
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Social Network, Information Transmission and Job Matching
DAI, RUI - 2021
Workers are connected by a social network through which job information can be transmitted among them. The case of single-step transmission of job information has been discussed by Calvó-Armengol and Zenou (2005) and they found a positive effect and a negative effect when examining the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312929
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You'll never walk alone : unemployment, social networks and leisure activities
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population, we estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a...
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