TY - JOUR AU - Hellerstein,Judith K. AU - McInerney,Melissa AU - Neumark,David TI - Neighbors And Co-Workers: The Importance Of Residential Labor Market Networks JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 14201 PY - 2008 Y2 - July 2008 DO - 10.3386/w14201 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14201 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14201.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Judith K. Hellerstein Department of Economics Tydings Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 301/405-3545 Fax: 301/405-3542 E-Mail: hellerst@econ.umd.edu Melissa P. McInerney Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University, Braker Hall, 8 Upper Campus Road, Medford, MA 02155 Tel: 617.627.6653 E-Mail: melissa.mcinerney@tufts.edu David Neumark Department of Economics University of California, Irvine 3151 Social Science Plaza Irvine, CA 92697 Tel: 949-824-8496 Fax: 949/824-2182 E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu AB - We specify and implement a test for the presence and importance of labor market network based on residential proximity in determining the establishments at which people work. Using matched employer-employee data at the establishment level, we measure the importance of these network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill. The evidence indicates that these types of labor market networks do exist and play an important role in determining the establishments where workers work, that they are more important for minorities and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that these networks appear to be race-based. ER -