Monday, November 9, 2009
Seminar: "Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks"
Description:
MARYLAND POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER presents a seminar:
JUDITH HELLERSTEIN, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
About the Talk: We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by race, ethnicity, and various measures of skill, for networks generated by residential proximity. The evidence indicates that these types of labor market networks play an important role in hiring, more so for minorities and the less-skilled, especially among Hispanics, and that these networks appear to be race-based.
{Will appear in FYI on Nov 9, 2009
Start Time:
12:00 PM
End Time:
1:00 PM
Room:
0124B
Venue:
Cole Student Activities Building
Common Location Name:
Other
Web Address:
www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/seminar-judy-hellerstein
Other Contact Information:
Tiffany L Pittman
MPRC
+1 301 405 6403
tpittman@umd.edu
