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Job Contact Networks, Inequality and Aggregate Economic Performance

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  • Nicola Meccheri
  • Andrea Mario Lavezzi

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In this paper we study the effects of social networks on wage inequality and aggregate production. In particular, we consider a simplified version of the model by Calvò-Armengol and Jackson (2003), with good and bad jobs and skilled and unskilled workers. Our findings are: i) increasing the number of social links increases aggregate output and reduces inequality; ii) given a number of social connections, output increases if the average distance among worker decreases; iii) a more mixed society, that is a society in which heterogeneous worker share social links produces more output and less inequality than a society in which some workers are isolated, when productivity of the most productive agents in the best jobs is sufficiently low. We draw some policy implications from these results

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  • Nicola Meccheri & Andrea Mario Lavezzi, 2004. "Job Contact Networks, Inequality and Aggregate Economic Performance," Computing in Economics and Finance 2004 164, Society for Computational Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:sce:scecf4:164
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    Cited by:

    1. Marco Guerrazzi, 2005. "Notes on Continuous Dynamic Models: the Benhabib-Farmer Condition for Indeterminacy," Discussion Papers 2005/54, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
    2. Maurizio Lisciandra, 2007. "The Role of Reciprocating Behaviour in Contract Choice," Discussion Papers 2007/65, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

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    Keywords

    networks; labor markets; mismatch; inequality; aggregate production;
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    JEL classification:

    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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