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Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms

dc.contributor.authorEliason, Marcus
dc.contributor.authorHensvik, Lena
dc.contributor.authorKramarz, Francis
dc.contributor.authorNorström Skans, Oskar
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-21T20:33:32Z
dc.date.available2020-02-21T20:33:32Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-13
dc.description.abstractWe assess the impact of social connections on the sorting of workers to firms (and the presumption that connections increase sorting inequality) by first examining the distribution of displaced workers’ social connections to employed workers and their firms; using Swedish data, we measure multiple types of networks, of both the strong and weak sort (family, former co-worker, former classmate, current neighbor); we estimate an AKM decomposition (to assess sorting inequality). Then, we examine the causal impact of connections on hiring for these displaced workers and how connections and their strength affect sorting inequality. Finally, we look at how connections affect sorting for all job-to-job movers. In this way, we find that our measured social connections display homophily: positive sorting in terms of earnings capacity; high-wage workers are connected to high-wage workers who tend to be employed by high-wage firms. Thus we can conclude that social connections matter when looking for jobs.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe conference was made possible with generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Office of the Dean, ILR School, Cornell University, the Pierce Memorial Fund, ILR School, Cornell University, the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics Chair, University of California at Berkeley, and the Labor Dynamics Institute, ILR School, Cornell University.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/69635
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPresented at the Models of Linked Employer-Employee Data Conference 2019en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjecthomophilyen_US
dc.subjectwagesen_US
dc.subjectworkersen_US
dc.titleSocial Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firmsen_US
dc.typepresentationen_US
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