This chapter reviews scholarship on how the matching of people to jobs is influenced by
networks of interpersonal ties. By all accounts, that role is substantial on both the individual's …

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 …

This article studies the role of employer behavior in generating “negative duration
dependence”—the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell—by sending fictitious …

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on
the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a …

This paper analyzes the magnitude and sources of long-term earnings declines associated
with graduating from college during a recession. Using a large longitudinal university …

Abstract Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) data for 2005–8, we find
that unemployed persons who look for work online are re‐employed about 25% faster than …

Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a
huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give …

This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature to examine the use by different
social groups of informal sources of information provided by friends, relatives, and …

The stigma associated with long-term unemployment spells could create large inefficiencies
in labor markets. While the existing literature points toward large stigma effects, it has proven …

We use a novel research design to empirically detect the effect of social interactions on labor
market outcomes. Using Census data on residential and employment locations, we examine …