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

provided the researcher can demonstrate that the within-block group correlation in observable
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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