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Spatial Influences on the Employment of U.S. Hispanics : Spatial Mismatch, Discrimination, or Immigrant Networks?

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009

Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …

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Neighbors and Co-Workers : The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009

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...

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Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension?

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2013

We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...

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Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs Before, During, and after the Great Recession

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2015

We test the effects of labor market networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass … employers by other network members. These network measures are linked to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs, and to … re-employment at neighbors’ employers. We also find evidence that network connections – especially those that provide …

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