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network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian … surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone communication data. In case of Estonia we consider the regional variation in … economic performance of the Russian minority, and in the U.S. case we consider the regional variation in black …
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be used for external moves between firms. We show that when female workers are the minority in the occupation and social … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … workers are the minority can explain a substantial part of the empirically observable total wage gap stemming from the glass …
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exhibit gender homophily, which reflects the fact that social ties are more likely to be formed between workers of the same … gender. In a setting when female workers are the minority, there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their …
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The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages. Our point of departure is the Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals which suggests that it is optimal for firms to hire new workers through referrals from their most...
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Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job … important information on the network segmentation of society. Gender, race, education, and income are concentrated unevenly …
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We develop a theoretical framework that considers the role played by moral hazard and the diversity of networks and cultures in the choice of hiring channel. In favoritism contexts social networks, and particularly strong ties, are adopted as hiring channels for unskilled jobs and result in wage...
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Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
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This paper develops a search model with heterogeneous workers and social networks. High ability workers are more productive and have a larger number of professional contacts. Firms have a choice between a high cost vacancy in the regular labour market and a low cost job opening in the referral...
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This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the...
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Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or intensifies the emotional response to the object of...
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