Alternative Job Search Strategies in Remote Rural and Peri‐urban Labour Markets: The Role of Social Networks

Lindsay, Colin; Greig, Malcolm; McQuaid, Ronald W

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9523.2005.00290.x

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“…He also finds that in Scotland, in addition to workers in remote rural areas facing thin labour markets those with low skills and women do so also. His findings on remote rural areas is consistent with those of Lindsay, Greig and McQuaid (2005) and that of the imperfections faced by other labour market segments with for example the genre of labour market literature associated with Madden (1981). The implication of this in a transport appraisal context is that whilst additional employment in remote rural areas that is additional at a national level will always create a surplus additional to user benefits, displacement of employment to remote rural areas will create both a surplus in the remote rural area and, if the jobs or some of the displaced jobs are held by women or the low skilled, a partially offsetting deficit in the regions from which the employment is displaced.…”

Section: Search Costs and Thin Labour Market Effectssupporting

confidence: 74%

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Wider economic benefits of transport schemes in remote rural areas

Laird¹,

Mackie²

2014

Research in Transportation Economics

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Remote rural areas tend to experience slower population growth (sometimes decline), slower growth in GDP, fewer employment opportunities and lower productivity relative to the economy as a whole. Transport policy interventions are typically focussed on addressing structural economic weaknesses. Yet despite a strong general interest in wider economic benefits, their relevance to schemes in remote rural areas has received very little previous discussion. We argue that remote rural areas are likely to exhibit market distortions in the goods and labour markets, primarily arising from a lack of alternatives and choices in these areas. We also illustrate the empirical importance of the wider economic benefits, caused by these distortions. using case studies from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to do so.We find that focusing the cost benefit analysis only on the primary transport market can significantly underestimate welfare benefits, and that the degree of underestimation varies significantly case by case. It is highest for schemes where the impacts on business and employment are large and where all of the output and employment effects occur in a remote rural area.

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Section: Search Costs and Thin Labour Market Effectssupporting

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“…There are few jobs and where they do exist vacancies are often not advertised. Successful job search is often attributed to contacts and networks (Monk and Hodge, 1995;Lindsay, Greig and McQuaid, 2005).…”

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Wider economic benefits of transport schemes in remote rural areas

Laird¹,

Mackie²

2014

Research in Transportation Economics

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“…In this paper, we compare paths to employment in urban and rural regions of Canada. At present, few studies make this direct comparison (see Lindsay et al ., 2005; Wahba and Zenou, 2005). This lack of attention is striking, given dramatic recent changes in the economic and demographic composition of cities and rural regions in Canada and other advanced capitalist nations.…”

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Social Capital, Labour Markets, and Job-Finding in Urban and Rural Regions: Comparing Paths to Employment in Prosperous Cities and Stressed Rural Communities in Canada^,

Matthews

Pendakur

Young

2009

The Sociological Review

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This paper compares paths to employment (job-finding) in prosperous cities and economically-stressed rural communities in Canada. Since the pioneering work of Mark Granovetter (1973;1974), sociologists have investigated the role of social capital in job-finding (specifically, the use of strong and weak social ties to find out about employment opportunities). To date, however, there have been few direct comparisons of job-finding in urban and rural settings (see Lindsay et al., 2005;Wahba and Zenou, 2005). Using data from two major surveys and a qualitative interview project, we uncover several important differences in urban and rural paths to employment. First, we find that both strong and weak ties are used more frequently by rural residents to find a job, while city-dwellers rely more often on formal or impersonal means. Second, we find much stronger evidence of differentiation within rural regions. Long-time rural residents are much more likely to use strong and weak ties to find employment than are newcomers. However, rural residents who used weak ties as paths to employment have significantly lower incomes. None of these patterns are evident in the cities. Together, these findings lead us to conclude that job-finding in rural settings is strongly affected by constraints -in the labour market and in social capital resources -that are not present in cities.

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“…Fitchen also found that the homeless people in this area were receiving little institutional assistance. Lindsay et al (2005) analysed the strategies of job seekers in rural and suburban areas in Scotland. They emphasised the importance of network-based job search methods given the 'small pools of opportunities' (Lindsay et al (2005), p. 53) and 'weak public service infrastructures' in these areas (Lindsay et al (2005)).…”

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Social Networks and Coping with Poverty in Rural Areas

Klärner

Knabe

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article draws attention to the spatial dimensions of poverty and the importance of social networks as coping resources for the rural poor. We analyse data from an explorative, mixed‐methods study conducted in rural and urban areas in north‐eastern Germany, and show that spatial contexts shape poor people's social networks. Our quantitative analyses indicate that compared to the urban networks, the rural networks in our sample are smaller, and include more family members and fewer supportive relationships. Our analysis of qualitative interviews with rural poor people yields a typology of strategies for coping with poverty. It also shows that while social networks represent important resources for coping with poverty in rural areas, the support capacities of these networks are weakened by structural changes, the selective out‐migration of younger and better educated individuals, and by the ageing and shrinking of the population.

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Alternative Job Search Strategies in Remote Rural and Peri‐urban Labour Markets: The Role of Social Networks

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

Wider economic benefits of transport schemes in remote rural areas

Wider economic benefits of transport schemes in remote rural areas

Social Capital, Labour Markets, and Job-Finding in Urban and Rural Regions: Comparing Paths to Employment in Prosperous Cities and Stressed Rural Communities in Canada^,

Social Networks and Coping with Poverty in Rural Areas

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Alternative Job Search Strategies in Remote Rural and Peri‐urban Labour Markets: The Role of Social Networks

Cited by 24 publications

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Wider economic benefits of transport schemes in remote rural areas

Wider economic benefits of transport schemes in remote rural areas

Social Capital, Labour Markets, and Job-Finding in Urban and Rural Regions: Comparing Paths to Employment in Prosperous Cities and Stressed Rural Communities in Canada,

Social Networks and Coping with Poverty in Rural Areas

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Social Capital, Labour Markets, and Job-Finding in Urban and Rural Regions: Comparing Paths to Employment in Prosperous Cities and Stressed Rural Communities in Canada^,