We raise two challenges concerning the validity of arguments underlying Granovetter's
strength of weak ties (SWT) thesis:(a) whether weak ties are actually bridges, ie, they help …

The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are
important for their future careers and insufficiently documented given their potential …

I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social
networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social …

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 …

While the idea that contacts matter in finding a job is intuitively appealing, we still do not
know—after decades of research—how and why strong ties benefit job seekers. To resolve …

In this paper we analyze the economic effects of different immigration policies using a model
that incorporates economic and policy features crucial to understanding the migrant flows …

We develop a dynamic quantitative model of occupational choice and search frictions with
multiple channels of intergenerational transmission (comparative advantage, social …

Studies of social networks have often taken the existence of a social tie as a proxy for the
transmission of information. However, other studies of social networks in the labor market …

Employees' high job mobility is detrimental to the healthy and sustainable development of
enterprises. It may be resolved by identifying the internal mechanism by which job mobility is …

This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the
education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and …