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 …

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 …

coverage, there is relatively little information on how workplace and employer characteristics affect the employment of older … Survey. We match this sample to information on their earnings, employment, employers and coworkers drawn from the … Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data for the years in which they age from 55 to 63. We use employment status as reported …