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Spatial Influences on the Employment of U.S. Hispanics : Spatial Mismatch, Discrimination, or Immigrant Networks?

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009

Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …

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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?

Brown, J. David - 2013

.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …

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Neighbors and Co-Workers : The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009

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...

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Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension?

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2013

We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...

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Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs Before, During, and after the Great Recession

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2015

We test the effects of labor market networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass … employers by other network members. These network measures are linked to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs, and to … re-employment at neighbors’ employers. We also find evidence that network connections – especially those that provide …

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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA

Brown, J. David - 2015

Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...

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