Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/120985 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9339
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from Italy and an instrumental variables approach, I show that an increase in the employment prospects of socially connected workers improves immigrants’ job search outcomes. The analysis of post-displacement outcomes sheds light on the different mechanisms generating the social effect.
Subjects: 
migration
job displacements
networks
JEL: 
J61
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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