The available empirical evidence on the wage effect of finding jobs through informal
contacts is mixed. This author theorizes that, depending upon the efficiency of formal search …

Young people have been among those most affected by the recent financial crisis.
Vocational education and training (VET) is often viewed as the silver bullet for the youth …

The past century can be termed the century of vocationalism, an era in which t expansion
and vocationalisation of school-based education went hand in han Jean Paul Gehin (2002) …

The goal of this paper is to get an econometric evaluation of the effects of the social
network's mobilization, as a job search strategy, on wages. We make use of switching …

This essay analyzes the role of different recruitment channels, and of informal networks in
particular, on wage structures across various organization types in the Italian social service …

Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the
relationship between the type of high school attended (general versus technical; private …

In this paper we investigate the determinants of regret of study program for tertiary education
graduates in Spain and the Netherlands. These two countries differ in their educational …

This paper presents a search model with heterogeneous workers, social networks and
endogenous search intensity. There are three job search channels: costly formal …

Although there has been a large body of empirical literature assessing the role of social
capital in the labor market, it is still unclear whether the relationship between measures of …

This paper develops a matching model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-
job search and family referrals. The overall effect of referrals on wages can be decomposed …