Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35806 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3750
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the 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.
Subjects: 
Networks
race
ethnicity
immigrants
JEL: 
J15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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