The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR single centre | en |
| cg.coverage.country | Ethiopia | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | ET | |
| cg.coverage.region | Eastern Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division | |
| cg.identifier.publicationRank | Not ranked | |
| cg.number | 1282 | en |
| cg.place | Washington, DC | en |
| cg.reviewStatus | Internal Review | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Caria, Antonia Stefano | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Hassen, Ibrahim Worku | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-01T13:56:40Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-01T13:56:40Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153565 | |
| dc.title | The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia | en |
| dcterms.abstract | In this study we focus on exclusion from job contact networks, which constitutes a major disadvantage for labor market participants in settings where referral hiring is common and information about jobs hard to obtain. In a mid-size town in northern Ethiopia, where these mechanisms are at work, we observe that many individuals do not access local job contact networks. Models of strategic network formation and behavioral decision theory suggest that given the right incentives, job contact networks should be more inclusive. On these grounds we hypothesize that workers would link to peripheral peers when this maximizes their chances of referral and when self-regarding concerns are absent due to social preferences. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Caria, Antonia Stefano and Hassen, Ibrahim Worku. 2013. The formation of job referral networks: Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1282. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153565 | en |
| dcterms.extent | 36 p. | en |
| dcterms.isPartOf | IFPRI Discussion Paper | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2013 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | en |
| dcterms.replaces | https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/127768 | en |
| dcterms.subject | social networks | en |
| dcterms.subject | labour market | en |
| dcterms.subject | field experimentation | en |
| dcterms.type | Working Paper |
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