social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …

wage premium. While we find that college graduates with better job matches do indeed earn higher wages on average, the …

efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a …The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our … candidates are more likely to be hired, 2) referred workers experience an initial wage advantage, 3) the wage advantage …