Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed

Blau, David M.; Robins, Philip K.

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“…To summarize, both ways of creating a vacancy bear the same cost but expansion could lead to an immediate hire while entry of a new firm is necessarily followed by time-consuming search in the market. 5 The assumption that the referrer contacts one of his links at random regardless of that link's employment status captures the frictions which are present when the referral channel is used. One justification is that the referring employee does not know which of his links 3 It is assumed that all payoff-relevant information, including the worker's network, are common knowledge within the match.…”

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Hiring through referrals

Galenianos¹

2014

Journal of Economic Theory

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Hiring through referrals

Galenianos¹

2014

Journal of Economic Theory

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“…The focus of this paper on search activity also means the paper has relevance for the smaller literature that considers the impact of benefit receipt on job search (see, for example, Blau and Robins, 1990, for the US, and Wadsworth, 1991, Schmitt and Wadsworth, 1993, for the UK). These studies typically find that claimants search more actively than non-claimants though a big problem with these studies is the direction of the causality.…”

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You can't always get what you want: The impact of the UK Jobseeker's Allowance

Manning

2009

Labour Economics

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In 1996 the UK made major changes to its welfare system for the support of the unemployed with the introduction of the Jobseeker's Allowance. This tightened the work search requirements needed for eligibility for benefit. It resulted in large flows out of claimant status, but, this paper concludes, not into employment. The movement out of claimant status was largest for those with low levels of search activity. But, this paper finds no evidence of increased job search activity as a result of this change.

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“…Widespread use of friends, relatives and acquaintances to search for jobs is a stylized fact (Rees, 1966;Granovetter, 1974Granovetter, , 1995Holzer, 1988;Blau and Robins, 1990;Montgomery, 1991;Gregg and Wadsworth, 1996;Topa, 2001;Addison and Portugal, 2002;Wahba and Zenou, 2005;Bentolila, Michelacci and Suárez, 2010;Pellizari, 2010).…”

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Neighborhood quality and labor market outcomes: Evidence from quasi-random neighborhood assignment of immigrants

Damm

2014

Journal of Urban Economics

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Using survey information about characteristics of personal contacts linked with administrative register information on employment status one year later, I show that unemployed survey respondents with many employed acquaintances have a higher job finding rate. Settlement in a socially deprived neighborhood may, therefore, hamper individual labor market outcomes because of lack of employed contacts. I investigate this hypothesis by exploiting a unique natural experiment that occurred between 1986 and 1998 when refugee immigrants to Denmark were assigned to municipalities quasirandomly, which successfully addresses the methodological problem of endogenous neighborhood selection. Taking account of location sorting, living in a socially deprived neighborhood does not affect labor market outcomes of refugee men. Furthermore, their labor market outcomes are not affected by the overall employment rate of men living in the neighborhood, but positively affected by the employment rate of non-Western immigrant men and co-national men living in the neighborhood. This is strong evidence that immigrants find jobs in part through their employed immigrant and co-ethnic contacts in the neighborhood of residence and that a high quality of contacts increases the individual's employment chances and annual earnings.JEL codes: J60, J31, R30.

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Job Search Outcomes for the Employed and Unemployed

Cited by 292 publications

References 11 publications

Hiring through referrals

Hiring through referrals

You can't always get what you want: The impact of the UK Jobseeker's Allowance

Neighborhood quality and labor market outcomes: Evidence from quasi-random neighborhood assignment of immigrants

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