The paper provides an overview of existing knowledge regarding the role played by social networks in the process where … young workers are matched to employing firms. We discuss standard theories of why social networks may be an important … element in the job-matching process and survey the empirical literature on labor market networks with an emphasis on studies …

Effects of localized personal networks on the choice of search methods are studied in this paper using evidence of … personal networks do not play an important role in the probability of unemployed job-seekers seeking assistance from friends …

The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages … know others with high unobserved productivity. Empirically, we identify the networks through coworker links within a rich … starting wages of linked entrants, suggesting that firms use the ability-density of social networks when setting entry wages …

The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages … know others with high unobserved productivity. Empirically, we identify the networks through coworker links within a rich … starting wages of linked entrants, suggesting that firms use the ability-density of social networks when setting entry wages …

The paper provides an overview of existing knowledge regarding the role played by social networks in the process where … young workers are matched to employing firms. We discuss standard theories of why social networks may be an important … element in the job-matching process and survey the empirical literature on labor market networks with an emphasis on studies …

The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages … know others with high unobserved productivity. Empirically, we identify the networks through coworker links within a rich … starting wages of linked entrants, suggesting that firms use the ability-density of social networks when setting entry wages …