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Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment

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Beaman, Lori, Magruder, Jeremy·2012·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.102.7.3574
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We use recruitment into a laboratory experiment in Kolkata, India to analyze how social networks select individuals for jobs. The experiment allows subjects to refer actual network members for casual jobs as experimental subjects under exogenously varied incentive contracts. We provide evidence that some workers, those who are high ability, have useful information about the abilities of members of their social network. However, the experiment also shows that social networks provide incentives to refer less qualified workers, and firms must counterbalance these incentives in order to effectively use existing employees to help overcome their screening problem.

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Authors
Beaman, L., & Magruder, J.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2012-12-01
Volume
102
Issue
7
Pages
3574-3593
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.102.7.3574
OpenAlex
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331
References
57
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60.27
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journal article
Language
en
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