We provide a direct empirical test of Montgomery's 1991 notion that firms hire workers
through social ties of productive employees as these workers know others with high …

We present a study of the employees of self-employed immigrants with unincorporated firms
in Sweden using matched employer-employee data from 2014. Non-European immigrants …

Do employers tend to exploit refugees or do they offer them high-quality jobs? This article
examines the job quality of refugees from Afghanistan and Syria working in Austria. It uses …

Social ties play a central role in migrant labor market integration. Whereas existing research
focusses on the co-ethnic ties that also drive migration, this paper examines the effect of …

We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background
culture. We hypothesize that it is easier to partake of economic, civic-political and social life …

Research in several advanced economies has found that the descendants of immigrants
tend to experience persistent difficulties in entering the labour market. This article tests …

Social capital (SC) plays a fundamental role in immigration by easing entry into a new
environment. We advance a novel approach to assessing the role of SC for immigrants' …

This paper empirically estimates how referrals mitigate the risk associated with hiring
formerly self-employed individuals. We do this by comparing the networks and entry wages …

Increasing rates of refugee and family reunion immigration have led to rising concern about
integration in Europe. Previous studies point to the importance of social contacts for …

This study analyzes the network antecedents of receiving job search assistance, specifically
how and to what extent social capital relates to this process. Data come from probability …