Your very private job agency: Job referrals based on residential location networks

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-313453
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.31345

Hawranek, Franziska ; Schanne, Norbert

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Abstract

This paper analyzes job referral effects that are based on residential location. We use geo-referenced record data for the entire working population and the corresponding establishments in the German Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. We estimate the propensity of two persons to work at the same place when residing in the same neighborhood (reported with an accuracy of 500m×500m grid cells), and ...