论文标题
推荐招聘和社交网络结构
Referral Hiring and Social Network Structure
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论文摘要
众所周知，社会群体之间平均朋友数量的差异会导致平均工资和/或失业率的不平等。但是，社交网络结构对不平等的影响并不明显。在本文中，我们表明，不仅是朋友的平均数量，而且学位分布的异质性也会影响组间不平等。与具有ERDőS-Rényi网络结构的群体相比，具有无标度网络的工人群体往往在劳动力市场上处于不利地位。随着度量分布的偏斜性在无标度网络中增加，此功能得到了增强。我们表明，政府不鼓励转介雇用的政策加剧了社会福利，并可能加剧不平等现象。
It is well known that differences in the average number of friends among social groups can cause inequality in the average wage and/or unemployment rate. However, the impact of social network structure on inequality is not evident. In this paper, we show that not only the average number of friends but also the heterogeneity of degree distribution can affect inter-group inequality. A worker group with a scale-free network tends to be disadvantaged in the labor market compared to a group with an Erdős-Rényi network structure. This feature becomes strengthened as the skewness of the degree distribution increases in scale-free networks. We show that the government's policy of discouraging referral hiring worsens social welfare and can exacerbate inequality.
