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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Transitions out of unemployment: The role of social networks' topology and firms' recruitment strategies
Andrea Mario LavezziN. Meccherisubject
job contact networks complex networks network symmetry transitions out of unemployment rms' recruitment strategiesSettore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politicadescription
In this paper we study the effects of job contact networks on out-of-unemployment transitions. We find that social connections produce sizable increases in upward mobility from unemployment and, caeteris paribus, symmetric network topologies perform better than asymmetric ones. Furthermore, in scale-free networks the probability of transitions out of unemployment increases in the exponent of the power-law degree distribution, but its value is much lower than the one attainable in Poisson random networks. In addition, and most interestingly, these results strongly depends on the different hypotheses on the firms' recruitment strategy.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 |