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Kinship pressure and firm-worker matching

Project Active from 8 Jul 2024 to 28 Feb 2025 Sustainable Growth

This project investigates whether some small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in low- and middle-income countries hire members of their kinship network rather than more productive non-kin workers due to social or redistributive pressure. It also measures how hiring decisions change when employers are offered plausible deniability for not hiring from their family.

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Nicholas Swanson

PhD Student, University of California - Berkeley

Project outputs

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Kinship pressure and firm-worker matching

Nicholas Swanson
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