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  -