Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes: Occupation Matters

Presenter

Jessica Gagete-Miranda (FBK-IRVAPP)

Coauthors

Giovanna D'Adda and Giovanni Righetto

Abstract

We study how the influence of social networks on individual labor market outcomes varies across occupations, specifically between manual and cognitive jobs. Using data from over fourteen million Brazilian workers and exploiting exogenous job termination due to mass layoffs, we confirm that social networks reduce unemployment duration and increase wages in the new job, but show that these effects are heterogeneous depending on workers.