Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that … are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational … the educational track significantly influences the means by which jobs are found, favoring networks in particular, as well …

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. …

We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into … the host countries' labour markets. We find a robust negative impact of ethnic networks on unemployment probabilities of …-education our results are less robust, but in their majority point to a negative impact of ethnic networks on the probability of …

Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. In this paper investigate how … theoretical and empirical literature we find that the employment status networks members matters for the job finding rate. We …