Some Contacts Are More Equal than Others: Informal Networks, Job Tenure, and Wages

By L. Loury. Journal of Labor Economics, 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension (2013, unknown): “Dustmann et al. (2011) provide a brief survey of this work, pointing out that the findings on network referrals and wages are mixed and (as in Loury, 2006) may depend on the nature of the referral.”
Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa (2010, methodology): “The analysis concludes that South African daughters do not benet from their mothers as network connections, which recalls Lourys (2006) absence of a wage boost for women who get jobs with help from their older female relatives.”
The individual experience of unemployment. (2012, background): “…women and blacks (Smith 2000) Some evidence suggests that women who have a greater proportion of men in their networks receive more offers (Belliveau 2005), and that men and women who find jobs through male contacts receive higher wages than those who find jobs through female contacts (Loury 2006).”
People I Know: Job Search and Social Networks (2012, background): “Finally, Datcher Loury (2006) shows that jobs obtained through contacts are better than those found through formal methods only when the contact is a prior-generation male relative, presumably more likely to have “useful characteristics” for the job seeker.”
Why Family Matters: The Impact of Family Resources on Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Exit from Entrepreneurship (2016, unknown): “Contacts that can be accessed through a native partner can provide both information about potential jobs as well as potential recommendations to employers (Burt, 2001; Loury, 2006).”
Referral-Based Job Search Networks (2016, unknown): “Loury (2006) emphasizes the importance of the type of job contact, showing that workers who find their job through a referral of high-wage-offer contacts – in her analysis prior generation male relatives – earn more initially but experience slower wage growth than workers who find their job through…”
Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Finding on Facebook’s Social Network (2017, background): “…of a person’s full network (e.g., just the job helping connection but not all the other connections; see, e.g., Granovetter 1973; Simon and Warner 1992; Castilla 2005; Yakubovich 2005; Loury 2006; Tassier 2006; Beaman and Magruder 2012; Cappellari and Tatsiramos 2015; Brown, Setren, and Topa 2016).”
Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment (2012, background): “…socially connected employees to address moral hazard (Kugler 2003), and firms can use referrals as a screening mechanism to reduce asymmetric information inherent in the hiring process (Montgomery 1991; Munshi 2003).2 Theory has also suggested a potential cost to relying on social networks to…”