Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions

Yann Bramoullé and Gilles Saint-Paul

No 1215, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed and an unemployed individual. We show that this assumption generates negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For instance, we show that a higher connectivity among unemployed individuals reduces duration dependence and that exit rates depend positively on the duration of the last job held by the unemployed worker.

Keywords: social capital; social networks; unemployment duration; economic inbreeding; labor market transitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J6 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2004-07
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Published - published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 188-195

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