Farmers increase hiring through labor contractors
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Hiring through referrals
An equilibrium search model of the labor market is combined with a social network. The key features are that the workers’ network transmits information about jobs and that wages and entry of firms are determined in equilibrium. In the baseline model workers are homogeneous and referrals are used to mitigate search frictions. When worker heterogeneity is added referrals also facilitate the hirin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: California Agriculture
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0008-0845
DOI: 10.3733/ca.v047n04p20