Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts

Zaharieva A (2013)
Labour Economics 23: 107-121.

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Abstract / Bemerkung
This paper incorporates job search through personal contacts into an equilibrium matching model with a segregated labor market. Firms can post wage offers in the regular job market, alternatively they can save on advertising costs and rely on word-of-mouth communication. Wages are then negotiated ex-post between the firm and the applicant, so the model can generate wage premiums or penalties depending on the parameter of bargaining power. Moreover, this paper shows that the traditional Hosios (1990) condition continues to hold in an economy with family contacts but it fails to provide efficiency in the economy with weak ties. There are two reasons for the inefficiency. First, workers bargaining over wages do not internalize the positive external effect on their contacts, originating from a higher probability of finding a job. This network externality puts an upward pressure on wages so the market tightness in the referral market is distorted downwards. Second, weak ties do not act in full interest of the unemployed worker so their search intensity is inefficiently low. Finally, this paper shows that a combination of a hiring subsidy and a referral bonus can decentralize the efficient allocation in the economy with weak ties. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Stichworte
etace_network_formation; etace_labour_economics
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Zeitschriftentitel
Labour Economics
Band
23
Seite(n)
107-121
ISSN
0927-5371
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2622231

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Zaharieva A. Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts. Labour Economics. 2013;23:107-121.
Zaharieva, A. (2013). Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts. Labour Economics, 23, 107-121. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2013.05.002
Zaharieva, Anna. 2013. “Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts”. Labour Economics 23: 107-121.
Zaharieva, A. (2013). Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts. Labour Economics 23, 107-121.
Zaharieva, A., 2013. Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts. Labour Economics, 23, p 107-121.
A. Zaharieva, “Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts”, Labour Economics, vol. 23, 2013, pp. 107-121.
Zaharieva, A.: Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts. Labour Economics. 23, 107-121 (2013).
Zaharieva, Anna. “Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts”. Labour Economics 23 (2013): 107-121.

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Social welfare and wage inequality in search equilibrium with personal contacts
Zaharieva A (2011) Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics; 459.
Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld.
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