- Author
- Year
- 2012
- Title
- Social networks and labor market inequality between ethnicities and races
- Number of pages
- 38
- Publisher
- Amsterdam/Rotterdam: Tinbergen Instuitute
- Series
- Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, TI-2012-120/II
- Document type
- Working paper
- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
- Institute
- Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
- Abstract
-
This paper analyzes the relationship between unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily, on the other hand. Our analysis is based on both U.S. and Estonian surveys, supplemented with Estonian telephone
communication data. In case of Estonia we consider the regional variation in economic performance of the Russian minority, and in the U.S. case we consider the regional variation in black-white differentials. Our analysis finds a strong relationship between the size of the differential and network
segregation: regions with more segregated social networks exhibit larger unexplained wage gaps. - Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.390928
- Downloads
-
390928.pdf(Submitted manuscript)
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