Racial differences in the effects of job contacts: Conflicting evidence from cross-sectional and longitudinal data

Mouw, Ted

doi:10.1016/s0049-089x(02)00020-0

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“…In the first study, Mouw (2002) examines the relationship between search through contacts and labormarket outcomes for African American job seekers. Studies that select on the dependent variable find that African American job seekers suffer a penalty from finding a job through contacts.…”

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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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“…Consider that job seekers are not randomly assigned their job-search methods-they choose them. We know that people who expect to benefit more from social networks are more likely to use contacts to search for jobs (Mouw 2002;cf. Mouw 2003).…”

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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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“…Green et al (1999) also find an earnings penalty for Hispanics and Whites from utilising informal job searches (personal networks) as opposed to formal approaches such as replying to advertisements. In a more recent paper Mouw (2002), using longitudinal data, finds that Black workers who used personal contacts to find employment did no worse compared to where they used formal methods. The European literature on this is practically non-existent, with little or no attention paid to the connections that ethnic individuals have or the role of connections in obtaining employment.…”

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Job contact networks and the ethnic minorities

2011

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Using data from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey, this paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. Our empirical findings suggest that, though personal networks are a popular method of finding a job for the ethnic minorities, the foreign born and those who identify themselves as non-British, they are not necessarily the most effective either in terms of gaining employment or in terms of the level of job achieved. However, there are some important differences across ethnic groups with some groups losing out disproportionately from using personal networks.

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“…Research that examines the relation between immigrants' social capital and its economic returns is scarce but growing steadily, for example with respect to employment (Aguilera 2002, Kalter 2006, Lancee 2010, income (Mouw 2002, Aguilera and Massey 2003, Aguilera 2005, Amuedo-Dorantes and Mundra 2008), self-employment (Kanas et al 2009b) and occupational status (Sanders andNee 1996, Kanas et al 2009a). The general conclusion is that social capital helps immigrants to make headway on the labour market.…”

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confidence: 99%