Network Matching Efficiency along the Economic Cycle: Direct and Indirect Ties

Arnaud Herault, Eva Moreno Galbis and François-Charles Wolff
Additional contact information
Arnaud Herault: GRANEM, University of Angers, http://granem.univ-angers.fr/fr/index.html

No 1832, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: There is a large consensus in the literature on the major role of social networks as a helpful instrument to find a job. In this paper, we study the social network matching rate along the economic cycle both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. Using the French Labor Force Survey for the period 2003-2012, we find that the relationship between the network matching rate based on direct ties and the job finding rate is decreasing and convex as predicted by our theoretical setup. Results are completely modified when we consider a measure of the network matching rate based on indirect ties related to the share of peers in a job. In this case, we find a linearly increasing relation between the network matching rate and the job finding rate. This underlines not only the heterogeneous ways through which network membership may influence the individuals’ performance on the labor market, but also the different behaviors of these driving factors along the economic cycle.

Keywords: employment; network matching rate; direct and indirect ties; job finding rate; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 D85 J15 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2018-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-net, nep-soc and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/sites/default/fil ... /wp_2018_-_nr_32.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Network Matching Efficiency along the Economic Cycle: Direct and Indirect Ties (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aim:wpaimx:1832

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France AMU-AMSE - 5-9 Boulevard Maurice Bourdet, CS 50498 - 13205 Marseille Cedex 1. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Gregory Cornu ().