Social Networks, Employment, and Insurance
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Article
CESifo Economic Studies
Issue number:
1
Year:
2011
Journal pages:
183-202
This article discusses two applications of social network theory to employment and social policies. Job contact networks help workers find jobs and risk-sharing networks help villagers in developing countries insure against illness and idiosyncratic shocks. In both applications, recent advances of network theory have shed new light on the issues, relating the structure of the social network to economic outcomes.