Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Deepti Goel, Kevin Lang

NBER Working Paper No. 15186
Issued in July 2009

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We thank the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network for funding this research. We also thank its reviewers and participants at the CLSRN conference and the Growth and Development conference, ISI Delhi, for helpful comments. We are grateful to Miles Corak for enabling access to the data housed in Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Much of this research was conducted while Goel was a Fellow at Statistics Canada. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network or of Statistics Canada. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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