Labour Market Networks, Underclass and Inequality

L. Finneran and Morgan Kelly

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Abstract: About half of all vacancies are filled through networks of personal contacts. We consider the implications of such labour networks for inequality. Our central result is that referral networks display threshold behaviour.

Keywords: LABOUR; MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 1996
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