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Why Do Firms Hire Using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories

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  1. Pushkar Maitra & Sandip Mitra & Dilip Mookherjee & Sujata Visaria, 2024. "Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private Versus Political Intermediaries," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 22(6), pages 2648-2699.
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  4. Osman, Adam & Speer, Jamin D. & Weaver, Andrew, 2022. "Connections, Referrals, and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from an Egyptian Establishment Survey," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 342-355.
  5. Marc-Andreas Muendler & James E. Rauch & Sergio Mikio Koyama, 2024. "You Can Take Them With You: Recruiting Coworkers to One's Own New Firm," NBER Working Papers 33230, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  7. Afridi, Farzana & Dhillon, Amrita & Sharma, Swati, 2024. "The ties that bind us: Social networks and productivity in the factory," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 470-485.
  8. Amrita Dhillon & Vegard Iversen & Gaute Torsvik, 2021. "Employee Referral, Social Proximity, and Worker Discipline: Theory and Suggestive Evidence from India," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 69(3), pages 1003-1030.
  9. Eliason, Marcus & Hensvik, Lena & Kramarz, Francis & Skans, Oskar Nordström, 2023. "Social connections and the sorting of workers to firms," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 233(2), pages 468-506.
  10. Rahima Akter & Julian Teicher & Quamrul Alam, 2024. "Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in Bangladesh’s Ready-Made Garments (RMG) Industry: Exploring Workplace Well-Being Issues in Policy and Practice," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(5), pages 1-23, March.
  11. Lukas Bolte & Nicole Immorlica & Matthew O. Jackson, 2026. "The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 44(2), pages 447-479.
  12. Dariel, Aurelie & Riedl, Arno & Siegenthaler, Simon, 2019. "Hiring Through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection," Research Memorandum 009, Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE).
  13. Emre Ekinci, 2022. "Monetary rewards in employee referral programs," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 90(1), pages 35-58, January.
  14. Berardi, Nicoletta & Lalanne, Marie & Seabright, Paul, 2018. "Professional networks and their coevolution with executive careers: Evidence from North America and Europe," SAFE Working Paper Series 243, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
  15. Martin Chegere & Paolo Falco & Andreas Menzel, 2023. "Social Ties at Work and Effort Choice: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp763, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
  16. Andrea Kiss & Robert Garlick & Kate Orkin & Luke Hensel, 2023. "Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search," Upjohn Working Papers 23-388, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
  17. Yi Chen & Fabiano Dal-Ri & Thomas Jungbauer & Daniela Scur, 2025. "Poaching, raids, and managerial compensation," CEP Discussion Papers dp2118, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
  18. Emma Lappi, 2023. "Help from the past—coworker ties and entry wages after self-employment," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 1171-1196, March.
  19. Fafchamps, Marcel & Islam, Asad & Malek, Mohammad Abdul & Pakrashi, Debayan, 2020. "Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
  20. Boudreau, Laura & Heath, Rachel & McCormick, Tyler H., 2024. "Migrants, experience, and working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 219(C), pages 196-213.
  21. Vittorio Bassi & Aisha Nansamba, 2022. "Screening and Signalling Non-Cognitive Skills: Experimental Evidence from Uganda," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 132(642), pages 471-511.
  22. Ruochen Dai & Dilip Mookherjee & Kaivan Munshi & Xiaobo Zhang, 2024. "Community Networks, Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 2406R1, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
  23. Czura, Kristina & Menzel, Andreas & Miotto, Martina, 2024. "Improved menstrual health and the workplace: An RCT with female Bangladeshi garment workers," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
  24. Hensel, Lukas & Tekleselassie, Tsegay & Witte, Marc J., 2021. "Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand," IZA Discussion Papers 14839, IZA Network @ LISER.
  25. Caria, A. Stefano & Labonne, Julien, 2024. "Village social structure and labor market performance: Evidence from the Philippines," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 219(C), pages 371-380.
  26. Dhillon, Amrita & Peeters, Ronald & Bartrum, Oliver & Yüksel, Ayşe Müge, 2020. "Hiring an employee’s friends is good for business: Overcoming moral hazard with social networks," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
  27. Dariel, Aurelie & Riedl, Arno & Siegenthaler, Simon, 2021. "Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 109-130.
  28. Patrizio Piraino, 2020. "Drivers of mobility," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-6, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  29. Anne Hilger & Christophe Jalil Nordman & Leopold R. Sarr, 2022. "Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels and Wages in Bangladesh," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 16(2), pages 219-247, August.
  30. Gürtzgen, Nicole & Pohlan, Laura, 2024. "Do employers learn more from referrals than from other recruitment channels?," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
  31. Chegere, Martin J. & Falco, Paolo & Menzel, Andreas, 2024. "Social ties at work and effort choice: Experimental evidence from Tanzania," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
  32. Benjamin Lester & David A. Rivers & Giorgio Topa, 2021. "The Heterogeneous Impact of Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes," Working Papers 21-34, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
  33. Woodruff, Christopher & Macchiavello, Rocco & Menzel, Andreas & Rabbani, Atonu, 2020. "Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector," CEPR Discussion Papers 15085, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  34. Swati Sharma, 2021. "Gender and workplace interactions: who is likely to lose?," IEG Working Papers 426, Institute of Economic Growth.
  35. Lalanne, Marie, 2025. "Social networks and job referrals in recruitment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
  36. Yan, Weibo & Gao, Sihan, 2024. "Family background and intergenerational mobility in a transition economy: Evidence from China," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
  37. Sytsma, Tobias, 2019. "Rules of Origin Liberalization with Multi-Product Firms: Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters," MPRA Paper 95956, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  38. Moon, Ji-Woong, 2023. "Strategic referrals and on-the-job search equilibrium," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 135-151.
  39. Nicoletta Berardi & Marie Lalanne & Paul Seabright, 2019. "Professional Networks and their Coevolution with Executive Careers," Working papers 723, Banque de France.
  40. Witte, Marc J., 2025. "Why Do Workers Make Job Referrals? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," IZA Discussion Papers 18258, IZA Network @ LISER.
  41. Laurel Wheeler & Robert Garlick & Eric Johnson & Patrick Shaw & Marissa Gargano, 2022. "LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 14(2), pages 101-125, April.
  42. Odilon Câmara & Nan Jia & Joseph Raffiee, 2023. "Reputation, Competition, and Lies in Labor Market Recommendations," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 69(11), pages 7022-7043, November.
  43. Mylius, F., 2023. "Why Personal Ties (Still) Matter: Referrals and Congestion," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2356, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
  44. Guido Friebel & Matthias Heinz & Mitchell Hoffman & Nick Zubanov, 2023. "What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 131(3), pages 633-686.
  45. Afridi, Farzana & Dhillon, Amrita, 2022. "Social Networks and the Labour Market," IZA Discussion Papers 15774, IZA Network @ LISER.
  46. Levati, Lorenzo Maria & Lalanne, Marie, 2020. "The impact of job referrals on employment outcomes in top corporate positions," SAFE Working Paper Series 268, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
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