Sociological research on labor markets has focused most of its attention on the supply side
of the labor market, that is, the characteristics of job seekers and job incumbents. Despite its …

The decisions employers make are of critical importance to sociological understandings of
labor market stratification. While contemporary research documents employment outcomes …

Racial disparities persist throughout the employment process, with African Americans
experiencing significant barriers compared to whites. This article advances the …

Is social network analysis just measures and methods with no theory? We attempt to clarify
some confusions, address some previous critiques and controversies surrounding the …

Using a new firm-level data set that includes explicit information on referrals by current
employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match …

I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social
networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social …

Employee referral hiring, an organization's use of current employees' social networks
(referrers) to fill job openings with new hires (referred workers), is a popular organization …

We examine how signals of a candidate's capability affect perceptions of that person's
commitment to an employer. In four experimental studies that use hiring managers as …

Abstract Research Summary Founders often tap their prior employment or educational
affiliations to facilitate employee mobilization and post‐hiring integration. But, how do these …

This study identifies three groups of job seekers in terms of the channels used to search for
jobs: the formal channel involving only official procedures to obtain a job, the informal …