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The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes

Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2017

The paper studies how social connections affect firm-level hiring decisions and performance. We characterize the social connections of firms' employees using register data and for causal identification we use job displacements, which create directed positive shocks towards connected firms by...

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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? The role of ethnic networks in job search

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, P. N. (Raja) - 2008

We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …

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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023

Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...

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Social Investment in Immigrants: Why and How?

Bonin, Holger - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 5, pp. 249-253

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The intergenerational transmission of employers

Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010

We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at...

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Choice and success of job search methods

Weber, Andrea; Mahringer, Helmut - 2002

Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of different search methods on the outcome of search. Using unique data on the search behaviour of job...

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Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2003

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as yet unclear whether differences in job search behaviour, or its success, can help explain this gap. In this paper, we investigate how the job search methods of unemployed...

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The Job Search and Education Investments of Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Connolly, Marie D.; Worswick, … - 2001

This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are associated with a greater probability of enrolling in school after migration. In households where the...

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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring

Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants. …

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