Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around the Great Recession

Kusum Mundra () and Fernando Rios-Avila ()

No 10233, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants unemployed for 1-2 months than immigrants who are unemployed for longer periods and this effect is further strengthened during the post recession period. This supports the Calvo-Armengol and Jackson hypothesis which posits that longer the agent is unemployed, less effective are her social networks in job search. Our findings are robust to different specifications.

Keywords: social networks; immigrants; unemployment duration; Great Recession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2016-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-soc and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Empirical Economics 61, 2021, 389 – 415

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