TY  - UNPD
A1  - Levati, Lorenzo Maria
A1  - Lalanne, Marie
T1  - The impact of job referrals on employment outcomes in top corporate positions
T2  - SAFE working paper series ; No. 268
N2  - Using an original dataset on professional networks of directors sitting on the boards of large US corporations, we examine how personal relationships are used by firms to improve job match quality in the high-skill segment of the labor market. Analyzing explicit social connection data between new hires and recruiters, we are able to test predictions of well established job referral models. We find that referred executive directors have a fifteen percent longer tenure than their non-referred counterparts. Referred executive directors also tend to be similar to their referrers on multiple dimensions, giving support to network homophily hypotheses.
T3  - SAFE working paper - 268 
KW  - Referrals
KW  - Job Match Quality
KW  - Social Networks
KW  - Board of Directors
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53098
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-530984
UR  - https://ssrn.com/abstract=3551182
IS  - March, 2020
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -