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Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

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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Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany

Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 129 (2009) 2, pp. 251-260

regional unemployment rates. While both employed and unemployed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are … significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence …

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Networks and youth labor market entry

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

The paper provides an overview of existing knowledge regarding the role played by social networks in the process where young workers are matched to employing firms. We discuss standard theories of why social networks may be an important element in the job-matching process and survey the...

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Un parti paysan dans la ville en Bolivie : le Mouvement vers le socialisme (MAS) à La Paz (2005-2010)

Alto, Hervé Do - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 92 (2011) 4, pp. 389-416

[paper in French] The takeover of the Bolivian presidency by the peasant trade-unionist Evo Morales and his party, the Movement towards Socialism (MAS), in 2005 not only marked the return of the left into the national political arena, but illustrates as well the raise, begun in the mid 90s, of...

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Une théorie des relations sociales emploi et inégalité

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, we consider a simple model that integrates the component of the social network as a research method of workers as well as a method of recruitment policy by firms. Indeed, taking into account the social sphere is fundamental to understand the labor market dynamic in developing...

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How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets

Belasen, Ariel R.; Polachek, Solomon W. - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 49-53

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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of … effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social capital is an important … predictor of well-being levels, but there is no evidence that it moderates the effect of unemployment on well-being. The well …

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Neighborhood and Network Effects

Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education and labor-market...

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Continuous Homophily and Clustering in Random Networks

Gauer, Florian; Landwehr, Jakob - Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2014

We propose a random network model incorporating heterogeneity of agents and a continuous notion of homophily. Unlike the vast majority of the corresponding economic literature, we capture homophily in terms of similarity rather than equality of agents. We show that if links between similar...

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Mitigating Life Challenges to Subjective Well-being through Civic Engagement: Insights from a Global Perspective

Wu, Fengyu; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2024

evaluations. Furthermore, the negative association between unemployment and overall life evaluations is alleviated only by Putnam …

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