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Social Interactions and the Labor Market

Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

To better understand the way social networks operate in the labor market, we propose two simple models where individuals help each other finding a job. In the first one, job information flows between individuals having a link with each other and we show that an equilibrium with a clustering of...

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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation

Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022

This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...

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Explaining the Black/White Employment Gap: The Role of Weak Ties

Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why minority workers have worse labor-market outcomes than majority workers. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing support in getting a job, we develop a...

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A social network analysis of occupational segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding … further translates into stable occupational segregation equilibria within the labour market. Our framework can be regarded as …

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Does City Structure Affect the Labor Market Outcomes of Black Workers?

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - 2021

In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...

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Does residential segregation matter for the labor market performance of immigrants? : evidence from Germany

Reil, Sebastian - 2018

With the arrival of over one million asylum seekers in Germany in 2015, policy discussions opened whether refugees should be spread across the country or spatially concentrated in order to facilitate their integration in society. When an immigrant locates in a residential area with many natives...

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Urban accessibility and spatial segregation in Brazilian cities : a configurational perspective

Barros, Ana Paula; Medeiros, Valério Augusto Soares de; … - 2017

regarding transportation issues, to study spatial segregation and urban accessibility in four Brazilian cities (Belém, Manaus …), as well as axial maps of these cities, according to the methodological tools of the Theory of the Social Logic of Space … series of interpretations over the existing process of "voluntary" and "involuntary" segregation in such cities, highlighting …

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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories

Selod, Harris; Gobillon, Laurent; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities ?and particularly blacks? have remained in city centers. In this context, the spatial mismatch hypothesis argues that because the residential locations of...

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Does city Structure affect the labor market outcomes of black workers?

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - 2003

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Political and racial neighborhood sorting : how is it changing?

Ihlanfeldt, Keith Ray; Yang, Cynthia Fan - In: Public choice 198 (2024) 1/2, pp. 161-187

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