Social capital and the labour market
Essential readings
Alesina, A., Algann, Y. Cahuc, P., Giuliano, P. (2010). Family Values and the Regulation of Labor. Harvard University Department of Economics, mimeo
Flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers to be e¢ cient. Otherwise, rms...
Modena, F., Sabatini, F. (2011). I Would if I Could: Precarious Employment and Childbearing Intetions in Italy. Review of Economics of the Household 10 (1), 77-97
This paper carries out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of childbearing...
Algann, Y., Cahuc, P. (2009). Civic Virtue and Labor Market Institutions. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 1 (1), 111-145.
We argue civic virtue plays a key role in explaining the design of public insurance against...
Important readings
Quentin, D., Janiak, A, Wasmer, E. (2010). Local social capital and geographical mobility. Journal of Urban Economics 6 (2), 191-204
In the North of Europe, club membership is higher than in the South, but the frequency of contacts...
Freitag, M., Kirchner, A. (2011). Social Capital and Unemployment: A Macro-Quantitative Analysis of the European Regions. Political Studies 59(2), 389-410.
The policy of unemployment is probably one of the most controversial issues among economists,...
Alesina, A., Algan, Y., Cahuc, P., Giuliano, P. (2015). Family values and the regulation of labor. Journal of the European Economic Association 13(4), 599-630.
To be efficient, flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers. Otherwise firms can...
Kunze, L., Suppa, N. (2017). Bowling alone or bowling at all? The effect of unemployment on social participation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 133, 213–235.
This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation using German panel data....
Reading list archive
Sabatini, F. (2006). An Inquiry into the Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development. Sapienza University of Rome, PhD Thesis
Fabio Sabatini PhD Programme in Economics University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Public...
Tassier, T., Menczer, F. (2008). Social network structure, segregation, and equality in a labor market with referral hiring. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 66, 514–528.
We examine the effects of social network structure on inequality in a model of referral hiring that...
Winkelmann, R. (2008). Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (4), 421-430
It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well...
