Peer and social networks in job search

By David Marmaros, Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Contacts and Occupational Choice (2004, background): “Indeed, Marmaros and Sacerdote (2002), who consider a sample of Dartmouth College seniors, and Munshi (2003), who deals with a sample of Mexican migrants to the US, find that an increase in the endowment of contacts of these specific groups of workers leads to better-paying jobs.”
Worker Absence and Shirking: Evidence from Matched Teacher-School Data, Labour Economics Research Group (LERG) Discussion Paper Series, June 2005 (2007, background): “…of group interaction effects on a range of social and economic outcomes, such as crime, educational achievement, employment and ethnic skill di¤erences (Case and Katz 1991, Borjas 1995, Glaeser et al 1996, Aaronson 1998, Sacerdote 2001, Marmaros and Sacerdote 2002, Arcidiacono and Nicholson 2005).”
Do Friends and Relatives Really Help in Getting a Good Job? (2010, unknown): “[25] Marmaros D.”
Network Effects and Social Inequality (2012, background): “Well-designed studies have found network effects on employment out of college (Marmaros & Sacerdote 2002) and mid-career (Laschever 2005), on schoolteachers’ retirement decisions (Brown & Laschever 2009), on immigrants’ use of transfer programs (Bertrand et al. 2000), on Finns’ stock-market entry…”
Referral-Based Job Search Networks (2016, unknown): “For instance, while Marmaros and Sacerdote (2002) report that individuals who received help from fraternity/sorority contacts were more likely to obtain high-paying jobs, Bentolila et al. (2010) find significant wage discounts for jobs found through family and friends.4 Loury (2006) offers a…”
The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills (2009, background): “These kinds of relating skills have been shown to have a direct effect on perceived (Eby et al., 2003) and actual employability (Brown & Konrad, 2001; Marmaros & Sacerdote, 2002).”
The Earned Income Tax Credit (2001, unknown): “3 For published work, see Dickert, Houser and Scholz (1995); Eissa and Leibman (1996); Keane and Moffitt (1998); Ellwood (2000); Meyer and Rosenbaum (2000, 2001); Grogger (2003); and Eissa and Hoynes (2004).”