Tag
job_referrals
3 findings
Labour & employmentReferral Quality Incentive Gap in Job NetworksUnder standard unincentivized conditions, male recommenders do not systematically refer the highest-quality candidates from their social networks; offering explicit financial performance incentives significantly increases the ability and test scores of referred job seekers.RCTLabour & employmentSocial Job Network ExpansionAcquiring short-term work experience increased the probability of receiving any job referral by 22.2 percentage points (p < 0.05) and increased the overall social network index by 0.306 standard deviations (p < 0.10) over the 8-month follow-up period.RCTLabour & employmentSocial Network Expansion MechanismExperimentally induced short-term work experience increases the likelihood of hearing about a job opportunity through contacts met during the intervention by 22.2 percentage points (p < 0.05). It increases the standardized social network index by 0.306 standard deviations (p < 0.10).RCT