TY - JOUR
T1 - With a little help from my friends? Quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality
AU - Cappellari, Lorenzo
AU - Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
N2 - This paper studies the effect of network quality on job finding and job match quality using longitudinal data and a direct measure of network quality, which is based on the employment of friendship ties. Various identification strategies provide robust evidence that a higher number of employed contacts increases the job finding rate. Network quality also increases wages for high-skilled workers forming networks with non-familial contacts. Instead, for low-skilled workers, more employed familial contacts lead to a negative but not significant effect on wages. These findings reconcile previous mixed evidence of network effects on wages, indicating heterogeneity by skill level and relationship type.
AB - This paper studies the effect of network quality on job finding and job match quality using longitudinal data and a direct measure of network quality, which is based on the employment of friendship ties. Various identification strategies provide robust evidence that a higher number of employed contacts increases the job finding rate. Network quality also increases wages for high-skilled workers forming networks with non-familial contacts. Instead, for low-skilled workers, more employed familial contacts lead to a negative but not significant effect on wages. These findings reconcile previous mixed evidence of network effects on wages, indicating heterogeneity by skill level and relationship type.
KW - Employment stability
KW - Friendship ties
KW - Social contacts
KW - Unemployment
KW - Wages
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/e29ec5be-af18-37e1-8497-b5d4e56de52a/
U2 - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.04.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0014-2921
VL - 78
SP - 55
EP - 75
JO - European Economic Review
JF - European Economic Review
ER -