People I Know: Job Search and Social Networks

Cingano, Federico; Rosolia, Alfonso

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“…For example, Mouw finds that same-occupation contacts rather than higher-status contacts might lead to high-prestige jobs (2003: 884). Similarly, Cingano and Rosolia (2008) report that the positive effects of searching through contacts are higher with contacts who are in the job seeker's geographic area or within the same industry than with contacts who are not.…”

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“…For example, the strength-of-strong-ties argument implies that, because strong ties are motivated to help the job seeker, job seekers should benefit from searching through strong ties (e.g., Granovetter 1983: 209-213). However, we might also expect that contacts who are in the same occupation, industry, or geographic area, or those who are homophilous with the job seeker on work-relevant attributes, should lead to better job-market outcomes than formal methods (Granovetter 1974;Mouw 2003;Cingano and Rosolia 2008;Horvath 2011;McDonald 2011). While the literature implies that the distinction between a contact's motivation and his relevance is important, we lack a systematic model of how these characteristics of contacts relate to job-search outcomes.…”

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Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China

Obukhova¹

2012

Social Science Research

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While the idea that contacts matter in finding a job is intuitively appealing, we still do not know-after decades of research-how and why strong ties benefit job seekers. To resolve this confusion, we need to theorize how specific characteristics of ties are related to the mechanisms that make job search through contacts effective. We have reasons to expect that, while a contact's motivation influences the likelihood that a job seeker receives an offer, her homophily with the job seeker on occupation and other job-relevant attributes influences the quality of the offer. The use of strong ties among university students to find jobs in China provides a unique opportunity to empirically isolate the relationship between contact characteristics and the mechanisms through which contacts benefit the job seeker. I tested my hypotheses with data on both the successful and unsuccessful job searches of 478 graduates of China's flagship universities, who, as first-time job seekers, primarily used strong ties. Survey results are consistent with my hypotheses: Job seekers who used strong ties to look for jobs had more offers-but not better offers-than those who used only formal methods.

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Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China

Obukhova¹

2012

Social Science Research

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“…In addition, non-productive factors, such as personal connections and networks, may play a significant role in the selection process (e.g. Heath (2011), Cingano andRosolia (2012)). …”

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Entrepreneurship versus joblessness: Explaining the rise in self-employment

Falco

Haywood

2016

Journal of Development Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract A large share of the workforce throughout the developing world is self-employed, and this proportion has increased in recent decades. Assessments of this development vary, with pull factors such as high returns to capital contrasted with push factors such as barriers to more desirable salaried jobs. Using a long panel dataset from Ghana, we empirically investigate the changing structure of earnings in self-employment relative to salaried work. Our analysis allows workers to sort into self-employment for different reasons, including expected earnings differentials and endogenous capital accumulation whilst highlighting constraints workers may face. We estimate a correlated random coefficient model using IV-GMM, taking into account the endogeneity of sector choice and capital accumulation. We find that returns to productive characteristics in selfemployment have increased significantly between 2004 and 2011 whilst self-employment has attracted increasingly skilled workers. This points against the negative view of selfemployment as an occupation of last resort. JEL: O15, J24, J42, C14 Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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“…Most of the studies of labor market outcomes that might fall under the social capital literature umbrella have been more concerned with the operation of social and professional networks and job contacts (who knows who), rather than on social and civic activities and 5 engagement (for example, see Holzer 1987;Montgomery 1991;Lin 1999;Bayer, Ross, and Topa 2005;Hellerstein, McInerney, and Neumark 2008;Schmutte 2015;Beaman 2012;Bentolila, Michelacci, and Suarez 2010;Mouw 2003;Wegener 1991;Cingano and Rosolia 2012;Hensvik and Skans 2016). Examples of exceptions to this generalization are Saffer and Lamiraud (2008) who investigate the relationship between hours of work and social interaction with friends and family and Ngom (2003) who performs an analysis similar to that in this paper, although limited to the analysis of men only; he finds no relationship between social capital investments (instrumented by the number of club or group activities and the number of hours spent on social activities) and either selection into social occupations or earnings in those occupations.…”

Section: Social Capitalmentioning

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Wage Determination in Social Occupations: The Role of Individual Social Capital

Hotchkiss

Rupasingha²

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in www.econstor.euThe authors appreciate comments from and discussions with Melissa R. Banzhaf, Tim Dunne, Barry Hirsch, Lisa Kahn, Tom Mroz, M. Melinda Pitts, and Matthew Ross. Research assistance from Augustine Denteh, Tom Zichong Qu, and Kalee Burns is also appreciated. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors' and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or the Economic Research Service. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. Any remaining errors are the authors' responsibility. Abstract: We make use of predicted social and civic activities (social capital) to account for selection into "social" occupations. Individual selection accounts for more than the total difference in wages observed between social and nonsocial occupations. The role that individual social capital plays in selecting into these occupations and the importance of selection in explaining wage differences across occupations is similar for both men and women. We make use of restricted data from the 2000 decennial census and the 2000 Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey. Individual social capital is instrumented by distance-weighted surrounding census tract characteristics.JEL classification: J31, J24, C34

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People I Know: Job Search and Social Networks

Cited by 393 publications

References 39 publications

Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China

Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China

Entrepreneurship versus joblessness: Explaining the rise in self-employment

Wage Determination in Social Occupations: The Role of Individual Social Capital

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