We combine stylized facts from social network literature with findings from the literature on the gender wage gap in a formal model. This model is based on employers' use of social networks in the hiring process in order to assess employee productivity. As a result, there is a persistent gender...

Past evidence on the incidence of payroll tax subsidies on employment and wages for disadvantaged workers has been quite mixed. Therefore, this paper makes use of a unique panel of firm level data and a natural experiment to analyze the incidence of wage subsidies on full-time manual workers and...