With a little help from my friends? Quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality

Publication type

Journal Article

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Publication date

May 4, 2015

Summary:

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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European Economic Review

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.04.002

ISSN

142921

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