Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Deepti Goel () and Kevin Lang

No 148, Carlo Alberto Notebooks from Collegio Carlo Alberto

Abstract: We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through the network should raise the observed mean wage in jobs found through formal (non-network) channels relative to that in jobs found through the network. This prediction also holds at all percentiles of the observed wage distribution, except the highest and lowest. The largest changes are likely to occur below the median. We test and confirm these implications using a survey of recent immigrants to Canada. We also develop a simple structural model, consistent with the theoretical model, and show that it can replicate the broad patterns in the data. For recent immigrants, our results are consistent with the primary effect of strong networks being to increase the arrival rate of offers rather than to alter the distribution from which offers are drawn.

Keywords: social networks; search; close ties; wage determination; employment; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2010
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-soc
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Journal Article: Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2019)
Working Paper: Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2016)
Working Paper: Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2010)
Working Paper: Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2010)
Working Paper: Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2010)
Working Paper: Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2009)
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