Employee referral hiring, an organization's use of current employees' social networks
(referrers) to fill job openings with new hires (referred workers), is a popular organization …

We discuss the value of experiments in illuminating constraints on the growth of firms in
developing countries. Experiments have provided insight into both the value and the …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks.
We develop a taxonomy of “macro” and “micro” characteristics of social-interaction networks …

Abstract We assess South African workseekers' skills and disseminate the assessment
results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior. Giving …

Using personnel data from nine large firms in three industries (call centers, trucking, and
high-tech), we empirically assess the benefit to firms of hiring through employee referrals …

We show that helping young job seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and
persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an …

Social networks are an important mechanism for diffusing information when institutions are
missing, but there may be distributional consequences from targeting only central nodes in a …

Referred workers are more likely than nonreferred workers to be hired, all else equal. In
three field experiments in an online labor market, we examine why. We find that referrals …

Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit
women's access to and benefits from social networks, especially in patrilocal societies. We …

This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in
female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have …