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Strategic Referring in Labor Market Social Networks

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Natálie Reichlová () (Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Petr Švarc () (Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

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We present a model of job search in which information about job opportunities is available either through direct search at the labor market or through network of socially tied individuals. We consider two cases - altruistic and self-interested agents that maximize their utility function. We show that optimal strategies range between full and no referring cases. Altruistic individuals tend to refer more than selfinterested agents. Strategic referring allows agents alleviate employment variation and leads to higher average utility levels and lower unemployment rates.

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Paper provided by Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies in its series Working Papers IES with number 2006/29.

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Date of creation: Dec 2006
Date of revision: Dec 2006
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Keywords: agent-based modeling; networks; strategy; job referring;

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J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information
D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information

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