Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

By P. Bayer, Stephen L. Ross, Giorgio Topa. Journal of Political Economy, 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation (2016, background): “Bayer, Ross, and Topa (2008) rely on this key assumption and provide empirical evidence that individuals’ characteristics are not correlated within blocks.”
Smart Cafe Cities: Testing human capital externalities in the Boston metropolitan area (2007, background): “Bayer et al. (2004) detected that social interactions among block neighbors help workers to build informal hiring networks, which have a signi cant impact on a wide range of labor market outcomes.”
Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure (2011, neutral): “Other studies, based on outcomes, such as Topa (2001), Conley and Topa (2002), and Bayer, Ross, and Topa (2008), identify local correlations in employment status within neighborhoods in Chicago, and consider neighborhoods that go beyond the geographic but also include proximity in other…”
An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications (2011, methodology): “An early version of such a process is suggested by Price (1973) in the context of citation networks, and Barabási and Albert (1999) show how a simple model can be applied quite generally to result in networks where the degree distribution is scale-free; that is, satisfies a power law so that the fre”
Peer Effects in Program Participation (2014, neutral): “First is the issue of how to define the running variable when there is more than one peer father in the window.”
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics (2012, neutral): “Bayer, Ross, and Topa (2008) find that greater availability of (potential) labor market referrals at the neighborhood block level is associated with significant increase in labor force participation, hours, and earnings.”
Identification of Social Interactions (2011, positive): “Bayer, Ross, and Topa (2008) is a good example of how spatial reasoning can be used to identify social interactions.”
Referral-Based Job Search Networks (2016, positive): “Similar to us, recent research by Bayer et al. (2008) and Hellerstein et al. (2008) does not rely on survey evidence on job search methods to test for the existence of job search networks, but investigates instead whether network members cluster together in the same work-location or firm.”
NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LOOKING BEYOND THEM* (2010, neutral): “Bayer et al. (2008) find that, on average, a one standard deviation increase in potential referrals raises expected labor earnings by between 2.0 and 3.7 percentage points, and hours worked per week by between 0.3 and 1.8 hours for men.”