With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality
This paper studies the effect of network quality on job finding and job match quality using longitudinal data and a direct measure of network quality, which is based on the employment of friendship ties. Various identification strategies provide robust evidence that a higher number of employed conta...
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| author | Cappelari, Lorenzo Tatsiramos, Konstantinos |
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| description | This paper studies the effect of network quality on job finding and job match quality using longitudinal data and a direct measure of network quality, which is based on the employment of friendship ties. Various identification strategies provide robust evidence that a higher number of employed contacts increases the job finding rate. Network quality also increases wages for high-skilled workers forming networks with non-familial contacts. Instead, for low-skilled workers, more employed familial contacts lead to a negative but not significant effect on wages. These findings reconcile previous mixed evidence of network effects on wages, indicating heterogeneity by skill level and relationship type. |
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| spelling | nottingham-291852020-05-04T20:10:38Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29185/ With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality Cappelari, Lorenzo Tatsiramos, Konstantinos This paper studies the effect of network quality on job finding and job match quality using longitudinal data and a direct measure of network quality, which is based on the employment of friendship ties. Various identification strategies provide robust evidence that a higher number of employed contacts increases the job finding rate. Network quality also increases wages for high-skilled workers forming networks with non-familial contacts. Instead, for low-skilled workers, more employed familial contacts lead to a negative but not significant effect on wages. These findings reconcile previous mixed evidence of network effects on wages, indicating heterogeneity by skill level and relationship type. Elsevier 2015 Article PeerReviewed Cappelari, Lorenzo and Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (2015) With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality. European Economic Review, 78 . pp. 55-75. ISSN 0014-2921 Social contacts Unemployment Friendship ties Wages Employment stability http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292115000586 doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.04.002 doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.04.002 |
| spellingShingle | Social contacts Unemployment Friendship ties Wages Employment stability Cappelari, Lorenzo Tatsiramos, Konstantinos With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality |
| title | With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality |
| title_full | With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality |
| title_fullStr | With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality |
| title_full_unstemmed | With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality |
| title_short | With a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality |
| title_sort | with a little help from my friends?: quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality |
| topic | Social contacts Unemployment Friendship ties Wages Employment stability |
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