Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt

By J. Wahba, Yves Zenou. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2013, background): “…is particularly important for individuals with less education—often from less affl uent neighborhoods—who rely more extensively on informal contacts for employment, whereas the better educated use a mixture of contacts and formal search methods (Ioannides and Loury 2004; Whaba and Zenou 2005).”
Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets (2014, background): “As Wahba and Zenou (2005) have shown, network congestion effects lead to empirically verified non-linearities in the use and effects of social contacts to find work.”
Job search in thick markets (2011, unknown): “…may reduce both transportation costs and the costs of acquisition of information on vacancies.11 In denser areas, search costs may be lower also because of the presence of thicker formal and informal networks facilitating the diffusion of information on job opportunities (Wahba and Zenou, 2005).”
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital (2012, unknown): “Indeed, several economic studies have examined the role of social networks in migration (see e.g. Munshi, 2003; McKenzie and Rapoport, 2010) and others have studied the role of social networks in job acquisition (see e.g. Wahba and Zenou, 2005).”
Referral-Based Job Search Networks (2016, unknown): “This is consistent with existing evidence that low-skilled workers are more likely to rely on friends and relatives in their job search process than high-skilled workers (see, for example, Borjas, 1998, Ioannides and Loury, 2004, and Wahba and Zenou, 2005).”
Job contact networks and the ethnic minorities (2010, background): “…range of countries have emphasized the popularity of using friends and family as a job search mechanism and indicate that they are an effective mechanism for obtaining job offers (Rees, 1966; Granovetter, 1974, 1995; Blau and Robins, 1990; Topa, 2000; Bentolila et. al, 2004; Wahba and Zenou, 2004).”