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008 080801s2008 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2008611011
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aHellerstein, Judith K.
245 10 $aMeasuring the importance of labor market networks$h[electronic resource] /$cJudith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney, David Neumark.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2008.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 14201
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 8/1/2008.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by residential proximity. The evidence indicates that labor market networks play an important role in hiring, more so for minorities and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that labor market networks appear to be race-based"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
700 1 $aMcInerney, Melissa.
700 1 $aNeumark, David.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 14201.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w14201