@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13857,
            	author={Caria, A. Stefano and Franklin, Simon and Witte, Marc J.},
            	title={Searching with Friends},
            	year={2020},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={13857},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13857},
	abstract={We study how active labor market policies affect the exchange of information and support among jobseekers. Leveraging a unique social network survey in Ethiopia, we find that a randomized job-search assistance intervention reduces information sharing and support between treated jobseekers and their active job-search partners. Due to lower job-search support, untreated individuals search less and, suggestively, have worse employment outcomes. These results are explained by a model of networks where unemployed individuals form job-search partnerships to exploit the complementarities of job search. These partnerships are broken if policy creates inequality in the access to information about job vacancies.},
	keywords={job search;social networks;RCT;active labor market policies},
            }