Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment

By Lori Beaman, Jeremy R. Magruder. 2012

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Subfields: Education, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps (2016, background): “Second, social networks also provide learning in labor markets as well as signaling (positive and negative) that can have strong influence on labor market outcomes (Calvo-Armengol & Jackson 2015, Beaman & Magruder 2012), Montgomery 1991).”
Referral-Based Job Search Networks (2016, neutral): “(44)The exact question and answer categories are: “What about before you moved to Germany: How did you find your first job? (1) Through the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) (2) Through an employment office/agency in my home country (3) Through an employment agency for foreigners ”
Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets (2014, background): “2011), whereas the mechanism proposed in this paper reflects worker opportunism (Bandiera et al. 2009; Beaman and Magruder 2011).”
Social Incentives in Organizations (2018, background): “To test whether social incentives shape referrals, Beaman and Magruder (2012) create short-term jobs in a laboratory in the field in”
Why the Referential Treatment? Evidence from Field Experiments on Referrals (2016, background): “In an experiment, Beaman and Magruder (2012) find that, when told they will be paid on the basis of their referrals’ performance, employees refer higher-performing workers.”
Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure (2011, neutral): “…in the network.3 Various field experiments, such as those by Duflo and Saez (2003), Karlan, Mobius, Rosenblat, and Szeidl (2009), Dupas (2010), Beaman and Magruder (2010), and Feigenberg, Field, and Pande (2010), also provide some control over the process, while working with real-world…”
Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets (2021, neutral): “, Udry (1994); Fafchamps and Lund (2003); Karlan, Mobius, Rosenblat, and Szeidl (2009); Beaman and Magruder (2012); Ambrus, Mobius, and Szeidl (2014); Blumenstock, Eagle, and Fafchamps (2016); Munshi and Rosenzweig (2016); Blumenstock and Tan (2016); Breza (2016).”
Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “Beaman and Magruder (2012) use a field experiment in India to demonstrate the importance of screening on hard to observe applicant characteristics in hiring short term labor.”
The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals (2015, background): “…to work together.3 In empirical work, a relatively small but growing literature explores referral-based hiring from the perspective of the firm.4 Beaman and Magruder (2012) and Pallais and Sands (2013) conduct field experiments using workers in India and in an online marketplace, respectively,…”