Network effects in hiring strategies ∗ Catia Nicodemo
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This study provides some preliminary insights about the hiring policies at firm level concerning immigrants. In the most recent years, Spain experienced a huge entrance of immigrants and this entrance produced interesting effects on the structure of the local labor market. Rather than focusing on the study of the complementarity and substitutability between natives and immigrants, this analysis provides some evidence about to what extent the recruiting policies adopted for immigrants are driven by the social networks and the changes in the qualifications of the natives. We exploit the information at individual level included in the Muestra Continua de Vida Laborales (MCVL) for a period ranging from 1980 to 2008. By working with the sub-samples of high and low skill (hired) immigrants, we are able to isolate two basics effects: (i) hiring immigrants is strongly influenced by the presence of the stock of immigrants hired in the same firms, above all in the superior positions (such as managers), (ii) the hiring of high skill immigrants is also driven by the scarcity of natives with the same level of qualification of immigrants. Under this perspective, our study sketches a new alternative path to evaluate the assimilation of immigrants in the Spanish labor market.
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