Social Interaction and Labour Market Outcomes

Guangyi Xin

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of social interaction on employment status and employment quality by using longitudinal data from BHPS (British Household Panel Survey). Active community membership is employed as the measurement of social Interaction. Various identification strategies provide robust evidence that a higher level of social interaction results in increased probability of being full-time employed. The effect of social interaction on employment status is also investigated among different gender groups and at different age stages. Moreover, three indices of social interaction have been constructed to capture the different dimension effect of social interaction on labour market outcome. As a result, active group memberships in professional organisations and sport clubs have the largest effect. Regarding employment quality, social interaction leads to a positive and significant effect on wages. This social interaction effect is also studied among different gender and occupation groups.

Keywords: Social Capital; Social Interaction; Labour Market Outcome (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 J21 J31 J64 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08-29
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-soc and nep-ure
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