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Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Growth
Hahn, Joyce - 2017
The U.S. workforce has had little change in real wages, income, or earnings since the year 2000. However, even when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965208
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205823
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Job-to-Job (J2J) Flows : New Labor Market Statistics from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
Flows of workers across jobs are a principal mechanism by which labor markets allocate workers to optimize productivity. While these job flows are both large and economically important, they represent a significant gap in available economic statistics. A soon to be released data product from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044230
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205824
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161665
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135186