Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes



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neighbor characteristics is zero, thereby ensuring that the key identifying assumption on
unobserved characteristics is at least reasonable. In future work, we intend to extend this analysis
to young adults for whom neighborhood contacts might be an especially important source of job
referrals.

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