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The impact of earnings gaps and networks on migration decisions : an empirical study of undocumented Mexican migrants
Oliveira, André L.; Wooster, Rossitza B.; … - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 60 (2021) 2, pp. 993-1012
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Asymmetric information in a search model with social contacts
Stupnytska, Yuliia - 2015
In this paper, the search model is proposed, in which homogeneous firms are uncertain about the job seekers' number of friends, who can help them in the job search (social capital). All workers have the same productivity and differ only in the social capital. A firm offers a take-it-or-leave-it...
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Double matching : social contacts in a labour market with on-the-job search ; conference paper
Zaharieva, Anna - 2013
capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a … positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the same time, employees accept job offers from more productive employers … lower than the average productivity in the market. This is a negative selection effect of referrals on wages. In the …
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Optimal policy and the role of social contacts in a search model with heterogeneous workers
Stupnytska, Yuliia; Zaharieva, Anna - 2013
large. This is in contrast to the result of Blazquez and Jansen (2008) showing that the distribution of wages is compressed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202193
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The impact of social capital on wages of rural migrants and its gender difference in China
Wang, Chunchao; Zhou, Xianbo; Zhang, Chenglei - In: Journal of macromarketing : examining the interactions … 35 (2015) 2, pp. 202-217
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Does the feminisation of agricultural labour empower women? : insights from female labour contractors and workers in Northwest Syria
Abdelali-Martini, Malika; Pryck, Jennie Dey de - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 27 (2015) 7, pp. 898-916
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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - 2017
on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine … successfully find a job in a competitive market) to potential employers, resulting in lower wages; and 2) there exists a trade …-off between wages and search efficiency for quicker entry into local labor market. We also find some evidence that the informal …
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Wage differences between polish and romanian intra-EU migrants in a flexi-secure labour market : an over-time perspective
Felbo-Kolding, Jonas; Leschke, Janine - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 37 (2023) 4, pp. 877-896
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Does Communist party membership pay? : estimating the economic returns to party membership in the labor market in China
McLaughlin, Joanne Song - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 45 (2017) 4, pp. 963-983
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Social capital and wage disadvantages among immigrant workers
Behtoui, Alireza; Neergard, Anders - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 24 (2010) 4, pp. 761-779
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