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Ejarque, João - 2010

This paper adds a quasi-network to a search model of the labor market. Fitting the model to an average unemployment … unemployment and job finding rates. However, the network creates downward sloping reemployment hazards which the basic model does … detail we find that the network gets partially destroyed in periods of high unemployment and generates less job creation per …

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Long social distancing

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022

More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...

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Long social distancing

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022

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Does the girl next door affect your academic outcomes and career choices?

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2018

Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major. Given that students are assigned to schools based on...

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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Borghans, Lex - 2006

This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...

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Social Interaction in Labor Supply

Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2011

Our research examines the effect of interdependence on estimation and interpretation of earnings/labor supply equations. We consider the cases of (1) a positive spillover from others’ labor supplied and (2) a need for conformity with others’ labor supplied. Qualitative and quantitative...

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Random or Referral Hiring : When Social Connections Matter

Nicodemo, Catia - 2012

This study investigates the existence of hiring criteria associated with the degree of social connections between skill and low-skill workers. We provide evidence about to what extent managers rely on their social connections in recruiting low-skill workers rather than on random matching. As one...

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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2021

Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...

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Network Search : Climbing the Job Ladder Faster

Arbex, Marcelo A. - 2019

We introduce an irregular network structure into a model of frictional, on-the-job search in which workers find jobs through their network connections or directly from firms. We show that jobs found through network search have wages that stochastically dominate those found through direct...

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On-the-Job Search and Finding a Good Job Through Social Contacts

Horvath, Gergely - 2013

decreases the unemployment rate. However, unemployed workers finding a job through social ties earn lower wages on average than … unemployment duration and wages for workers obtaining a job via social ties …

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