Do Friends and Relatives Really Help in Getting a Good Job?

By M. Pellizzari. 2010

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Job Information Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Inequality (2004, background): “Elliott (1999) looks at workers with no more than (2)Calculations based on data from surveys of individuals are likely to understate the importance of referrals, because they consider only one side of the job market.”
Referral-Based Job Search Networks (2016, neutral): “Pellizzari (2010) provides an overview of wage differentials 4 arguing that depending on their quality, social contacts can either lead to longer job tenure and high wages because they indicate better matches or to longer job tenure and low wages because they indicate a worker’s limited range of…”
Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension (2013, neutral): “(See Ioannides and Datcher Loury, 2004, and more recent evidence for European countries in Pellizzari, 2010.)”
An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications (2011, background): “…play a substantial role in essentially all of the labor markets that have been studied, regardless of the skill level, location, or population of workers (e.g., see Rees and Shultz (1970), Montgomery (1991), Pellizzari (2009), Corcoran, Datcher, and Duncan (1980), and Bentolila et al (2009)).”
Social Contacts and Occupational Choice (2004, neutral): “…economy.4 Social contacts help the spreading of 2Simon and Warner (1992), for a sample of US scientists and engineers, Pistaferri (1999), for Italian data, and Pellizzari (2003), for a set of European countries, also find a wage discount associated with jobs found through family and friends.”