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The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

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Goel, Deepti
Lang, Kevin

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We show that among workers whose network is weaker than formal (nonnetwork) channels, those finding a job through the network should have higher wages than those finding a job through formal channels. Moreover, this wage differential is decreasing in network strength. We test these implications using a survey of recent immigrants into Canada. At least at the lower end of an individual’s wage distribution above his reservation wage, finding a network job is associated with higher wages for those with weak networks, and the interaction between network strength and finding a job through the network is negative as predicted.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series CLSRN Working Papers with number clsrn_admin-2009-12.

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Date of creation: 02 Feb 2009
Date of revision: 02 Feb 2009
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Keywords: Immigrants; Job Search; Social Networks; Strong Ties;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General

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