We question whether the use of social networks to exit unemployment matters in Cameroon. We develop an empirical model which allows us to address this issue in a convenient way. We propose a methodology based on the well known Heckman (1976) two-step procedure to account for both simultaneity...

In this paper, the search model is proposed, in which homogeneous firms are uncertain about the job seekers' number of friends, who can help them in the job search (social capital). All workers have the same productivity and differ only in the social capital. A firm offers a take-it-or-leave-it...