Social Networks and Employment Performances: Evidence from Rural – Urban Migration in Vietnam

Dang, Duc Anh (2015): Social Networks and Employment Performances: Evidence from Rural – Urban Migration in Vietnam.

Abstract

This paper considers the effects of social network on income and employment dynamics of rural-urban migrants in Vietnam. Estimation of a causal effect is challenging because unobserved factors affects both employment performances and social networks. I address this endogeneity problem by using instrumental variable method. The results suggest that social networks improve migrant’s earnings and make wage earners willing to change their jobs.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: migration, social network, employment
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers

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