People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Borghans, Lex, ter Weel, Bas and Weinberg, Bruce A. (2005). People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups. UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda. UNU-MERIT.
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ter Weel, Bas
Weinberg, Bruce A.Title People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups Series Title UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda Volume/Issue No. 2 Publication Date 2005 Place of Publication Maastricht, NL Publisher UNU-MERIT Pages 61 Language eng Abstract Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that technological and organizational changes have increased the importance of interpersonal interactions in the workplace. We particularly focus on how the increased importance of interpersonal interactions has affected the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups. We show that the acceleration in the rate of increase in the importance of interpersonal interactions between the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women's wages increased more rapidly, while the wages of blacks grew more slowly over these years relative to earlier years. Keyword Interpersonal interactions
Wages
Economics of minorities and races and gender
Social capitalJEL J16
J21
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J31Copyright Holder UNU-MERIT Copyright Year 2005 Copyright type All rights reserved -
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