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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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, then expected homophily in the contact network structure induces different career choices for individuals from different …
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Many of the positive economic trends coming out of the Civil Rights Era for black men stagnated or reversed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the impact of this trade shock on racial disparities...
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In many developed countries, racial and ethnic minorities are paid, on average, less than the native white majority …. While racial wage differentials are partly the result of immigration, they also persist for racial minorities of second and …
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subsequent economic effects to those of other types of football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … affected by type of injury and the player's race. We calculate that the average ex post loss in annual compensation from a … outcomes equally for white and nonwhite players. Both injuries and race affect compensation solely through their effects on …
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Using a unique data set, this paper first documents that gaps in starting wages by race and sex persist after … discrimination, is partly responsible for race differences in starting wages. But because women's average performance in the sample …
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