Youth !... How did you find your job ?

Fathi Fakhfakh, Annick Vignes () and Jihan Ghrairi ()
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Jihan Ghrairi: TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UP2 - Université Panthéon-Assas

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Abstract: French youth suffer from a high level of unemployment. Despite a large number of public policies, youth employability remains at a critical level. This article emphasizes the role of networks in getting a job, while distinguishing between school networks and social/professional networks, and this a novelty of this study. We postulate that workers use networks differently depending mainly on their individual and their socio-spatial characteristics. The empirical analysis shows that more than 30% of young people find a job thanks to their social or school network. School networks help better-educated people, whereas social networks are more fruitful for the less well-educated. Being a woman or having non-French parents reduce the probability of finding a job through social or school networks. Finally, people living in sensitive urban areas are more affected by unemployment, and they are more likely to find a job through school networks, public agencies or competitive exams. Thus, networks help in finding a job, but to different extents depending on education, origin, gender or place of residence.

Keywords: Social and professional networks; school networks; job access channels; youth labor market; socio-spatial indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-soc and nep-ure
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