“Whom you know” and labour market outcomes: An empirical investigation in Ghana
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Social networks; Job tenure; Cox proportional hazard model.;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
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