Social Networks, Employment, and Insurance

Francis Bloch

CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, vol. 57, issue 1, 183-202

Abstract: This article discusses two applications of social network theory to employment and social policies. Job contact networks help workers find jobs and risk-sharing networks help villagers in developing countries insure against illness and idiosyncratic shocks. In both applications, recent advances of network theory have shed new light on the issues, relating the structure of the social network to economic outcomes. (JEL codes: D74, D72, C72). Copyright The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2011
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