Name: Search Methods
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

About this Dataset

Search Methods

Measuring the impact of personal relations on economic outcomes is difficult. This is because these two aspects of our life are often closely intertwined – social ties facilitate economic interactions, but at the same time people with whom we interact for economic reasons end up becoming acquaintances or even friends.

To overcome this difficulty, the economists Konrad Burchardi and Tarek Hassan studied a historical event that suddenly opened up new economic interactions, where previously only non-economic social connections were possible: The fall of the Berlin Wall.1

For decades private economic exchange between East and West Germany was virtually impossible, but at the same time people on both sides maintained social ties for non-economic reasons. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, trade and collaboration between the two Germanies suddenly became feasible. Burchardi and Hassan studied the impact that this sudden change had on household incomes.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there was growth in incomes across Germany as a whole; but the interesting finding from Burchardi and Hassan is that income growth for households in West Germany who had ties to at least one relative in the East was much higher – six percentage points higher – than that of comparable households without such ties.

Burchardi and Hassan argue that West German households that had ties to East Germany had a comparative advantage in seizing the new economic opportunities in the East. Having personal relationships with East Germans gave them access to valuable economic information – information regarding local demand conditions, and about the quality of East German assets that were offered to investors.

These gains from social connections actually added up at the regional level. West German regions that had a higher concentration of households with social ties to the East, enjoyed substantially higher growth in incomes in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 was associated with a 4.6 percentage point rise in income per capita over six years.

Tables

Job Seeker Job Search Pew New

@kaggle.willianoliveiragibin_search_methods.job_seeker_job_search_pew_new

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CREATE TABLE job_seeker_job_search_pew_new (
  "entity" VARCHAR,
  "code" VARCHAR,
  "year" BIGINT,
  "percentage_who_used_online_resources_and_information" BIGINT,
  "percentage_who_used_employment_agencies_government_or_private" BIGINT  -- Percentage Who Used Employment Agencies (government Or Private),
  "percentage_who_used_ads_in_print_publications" BIGINT,
  "percentage_who_used_professional_or_work_connections" BIGINT,
  "percentage_who_used_job_fairs_conferences_and_other_events" BIGINT  -- Percentage Who Used Job Fairs, Conferences, And Other Events,
  "percentage_who_used_connections_with_close_friends_or_family" BIGINT,
  "percentage_who_used_acquaintances_or_friends_of_friends" BIGINT
);