Networks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the U. S. Labor Market

By Kaivan Munshi. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Finding on Facebook’s Social Network (2017, background): “Alternately, studies with measures of true network ties have had to concentrate on only very specific types of ties, such as parental links (Munshi 2003; Babcock 2008; Magruder 2010; Kramarz and Skans 2014), school links (Marmaros and Sacerdote 2002; Shue 2013), or shared previous employer links…”
The labour market impact of immigration (2008, background): “The instrumental variable approach takes advantage of the fact that, besides economic conditions, newly arriving immigrants tend to move to those areas in which other individuals of the same ethnic background are already present (Bartel, 1989; Munshi, 2003).”
The influence of social relationships on pro-environment behaviors (2012, neutral): “3 (Munshi [29], Calvó-Armengol and Jackson [7], Bearman, Moody, and Stovel [4],”
Social Networks in the Boardroom (2013, neutral): “As in Munshi (2003), we seek to establish whether belonging to the same network as the firm’s CEO increases individual i’s odds of being on firm j ’s board: Eijt = αi · Z jt + β j · Xit + Z ′j t · M · Xit + ∑ k,l λkl · ( Ckjt · Ali ) + εijt, (1) where Eijt = 1 if individual i works as a director of…”
Labor Supply, School Attendance, and Remittances from International Migration: The Case of El Salvador (2006, background): “See Filmer and Pritchett (2001) and McKenzie (2005b) for further details on the application of First Principal Component techniques in the construction of asset indexes and their advantage in approximating wealth levels.”
The Effect of Male Migration on Employment Patterns of Women in Nepal (2009, methodology): “For this study, the proportion of migrants in a ward in 2001 was used as a proxy for the ward-level networks that help new migrants (see Carringon, Detragiache, and Vishwanath 1996; Munshi 2003).”
Immigration and House Prices in the UK (2015, neutral): “To model the mobility decision of high income natives, assume that the utility level that can be attained outside the city is U .”
Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration (2010, neutral): “In a related method, Munshi (2003) uses rainfall in Mexican villages as an instrument for the size of different migrant networks in the United States. ﬂows from source areas.”
Multilateral Resistance to Migration (2013, neutral): “…papers that estimate the influence of demographic factors (Hanson and McIntosh, 2010, 2012) and migration networks (Edin, Fredriksson, and Åslund, 2003; Munshi, 2003; McKenzie and Rapoport, 2010; Bertoli, 2010) upon migration flows; these effects are controlled for but not estimated in our paper.”