The Impacts of Social Networks on Immigrants’ Employment Prospects: The Spanish Case 1997-2007

Luciana Méndez Errico

Working Papers from Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona

Abstract: This paper studies the extent to which social networks influence the employment stability and wages of immigrants in Spain. By doing so, I consider an aspect that has not been previously addressed in the empirical literature, namely the connection between immigrants’ social networks and labor market outcomes in Spain. For this purpose, I use micro-data from the National Immigrant Survey carried out in 2007. The analysis is conducted in two stages. First, the impact of social networks on the probability of keeping the first job obtained in Spain is studied through a multinomial logit regression. Second, quantile regressions are used to estimate a wage equation. The empirical results suggest that once the endogeneity problem has been accounted for, immigrants’ social networks influence their labor market outcomes. On arrival, immigrants experience a mismatch in the labor market. In addition, different effects of social networks on wages by gender and wage distribution are found. While contacts on arrival and informal job access mechanisms positively influence women’s wages, a wage penalty is observed for men.

Keywords: Immigration; Labor market; Social Networks; Quantile regression; Semi-parametric estimations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 J15 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2013-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-iue, nep-mig, nep-soc and nep-ure
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