Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by … residential proximity. The evidence indicates that labor market networks play an important role in hiring, more so for minorities … and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based. …