Seminar Series: Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks
Judith Hellerstein, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
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Nov 30, 2009 from 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm |
| Where | 0124B Cole Student Activities Building |
| Contact Name | Tiffany Pittman |
| Contact Phone | 301-405-6403 |
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About the Talk
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by residential proximity. The evidence indicates that these types of labor market networks play an important role in hiring, more so for minorities and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that these networks appear to be race-based.
About the Speaker
Judith K. Hellerstein, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994 and joined the Maryland faculty in 1996. She is also a faculty associate of the Maryland Population Research Center and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The focus of much of her research is labor market outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity. Publications include: "Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Skill" Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008; "Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?" Journal of Urban Economics, 2008; "New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data," Journal of Labor Economics, 2003; "Market Forces and Sex Discrimination," Journal of Human Resources, 2002.