Soziale Netzwerke und Arbeitsmarkt
Auf der Suche nach Personal und freien Stellen werden von Betrieben und Arbeitsuchenden unter anderem soziale Netzwerke genutzt. Darunter sind nicht nur persönliche Beziehungen über Verwandte, Bekannte oder den Freundeskreis zu verstehen, sondern auch über soziale Netzwerke, wie durch Facebook oder Xing vermittelte Kontakte. Soziale Netzwerke liefern für Arbeitsuchende oftmals Informationen über den Betrieb bzw. umgekehrt für die Unternehmen Informationen über Bewerber*innen, die über herkömmliche Rekrutierungs- und Suchkanäle (z.B. Stellenanzeige, Bewerbungsunterlagen) nicht oder nur schwer zugänglich sind.
In dem Themendossier ist wissenschaftliche Literatur zur Bedeutung und zum Nutzen sozialer Netzwerke bei der Personal- und Arbeitsplatzsuche zusammengestellt.
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A Little Help from My Friends? Navigating the Tension Between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search (2025)
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Adler, Laura & Elena Ayala-Hurtado (2025): A Little Help from My Friends? Navigating the Tension Between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search. In: Administrative Science Quarterly, Jg. 70, H. 2, S. 496-537. DOI:10.1177/00018392251318974
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"Job seekers often rely on help from social ties in the search for employment. Yet the job search is characterized by meritocratic ideals according to which candidates should be selected based on their qualifications, not their connections. How do people justify the use of connections gWe conduct an inductive analysis of 56 interviews with young Spaniards experiencing a difficult labor market and identify a novel process of justification, situational alignment, that reconciles these conflicting logics. Respondents justified situations in which connections provided assistance as legitimate when they perceived alignment among the job seeker, job, and type of help that connections provided. Respondents deemed illegitimate the situations in which these were not aligned. These justifications allowed respondents to embrace the social capital logic’s prescription to use connections, while upholding the meritocratic principle that jobs be awarded based on qualifications. We further find that situations involving close ties were more readily justified than those involving distant others. We test this inductively derived process using a survey experiment with 1,536 young Spaniards. This study demonstrates that perceptions of merit are situated, and advances the understanding of social capital by identifying a novel process of justification that contributes
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Online Social Network Effects in Labor Markets: Evidence from Facebook’s Entry to College Campuses (2025)
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Armona, Luis (2025): Online Social Network Effects in Labor Markets: Evidence from Facebook’s Entry to College Campuses. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 107, H. 4, S. 873-888. DOI:10.1162/rest_a_01354
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"Using quasi-random variation from Facebook’s entry to college campuses, I exploit a natural experiment to estimate the effect of online social network access on future earnings. I estimate that access to Facebook for an additional year in college causes a .62 percentile increase in a cohort’s average earnings, translating to an average wage increase of around $970 in 2014, and decreases income inequality within a cohort. I provide indirect evidence that wage increases come through the channel of increased social ties with college alumni, strengthened employment networks, and increased match value between students’ majors and later occupations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))
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Peer Effects in Old‑Age Employment Among Women (2025)
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Badalyan, Sona (2025): Peer Effects in Old‑Age Employment Among Women. (IAB-Discussion Paper 13/2025), Nürnberg, 72 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2513
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"Dieses Papier nutzt eine einzigartige Situation des Normenwandels – eine deutsche Rentenreform, die das Renteneintrittsalter für Frauen und Männer angleichen sollte –, um zu untersuchen, wie Beschäftigung im höheren Alter über Arbeitsplatznetzwerke weitergegeben wird. Die Reform erhöhte das früheste Renteneintrittsalter von Frauen von 60 auf 63 Jahre für Kohorten, die ab 1952 geboren wurden. Unter Verwendung des Universums der Arbeitsgruppen aus den Sozialversicherungsdaten vergleiche ich Frauen, deren Kolleginnen knapp über oder unter der Reformgrenze lagen. Ich finde, dass Frauen eher im höheren Alter erwerbstätig bleiben, wenn ihre Kolleginnen dies tun, wobei die Effekte in den Regionen des ehemaligen Westdeutschlands mit traditionellen Geschlechternormen stärker ausfallen. Geschlechtsneutrale Rentenreformen verstärken somit ihren Effekt über den Einfluss von Kolleginnen und tragen zu einer regionalen Angleichung der Beschäftigungsmuster im späten Erwerbsleben bei." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature (2025)
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Bawati, Abrar, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Merve Uzunalioǧlu & Max Thaning (2025): Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 52, S. 887-914. DOI:10.4054/demres.2025.52.27
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"Background: The concept of resilience in familial and social contexts has gained prominence in academic and policy discussions. However, the interplay between family life and social inequalities, and how these relate to each other in the resilience literature, has yet to be documented. Objective: This scoping review addresses this gap by analyzing 250 articles published between 1998 and 2023. We compare the concept of resilience as applied in family and social resilience studies through four constitutive elements: (1) the unit of analysis, (2) definitions, (3) types, and (4) the risks, outcomes, and explanatory factors that are examined empirically. Results: While both perspectives study individuals’ resilience, the emphasis in family resilience is on families, whereas social resilience studies focus more on communities and societies. Both perspectives emphasize the centrality of risks in defining resilience, yet family resilience scholarship seeks solutions within the family, while social resilience highlights community dynamics. Additionally, family resilience studies explore topics related to family-specific risks and resources, while social resilience studies examine external risks and resources. Conclusions: The family resilience scholarship follows the clinical tradition in the resilience literature, viewing families as a separate entity that is resourceful and agentic. Socioeconomic risks are recurrent themes in social resilience literature, but not in family resilience. Contribution: Understanding resilience through the lens of family inequalities in socioeconomic contexts can bridge these two perspectives. Incorporating factors such as labour market dynamics, family transitions, and educational attainment into definitions of risks, outcomes, and explanatory factors of resilience can enhance this integration." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))
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Interdependent hazards, local interactions and the return decision of recent migrants (2025)
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Bijwaard, Govert E. & Christian Schluter (2025): Interdependent hazards, local interactions and the return decision of recent migrants. In: Spatial Economic Analysis, S. 1-21. DOI:10.1080/17421772.2025.2530498
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"We propose a new statistical model of spatially interdependent hazards in order to examine whether interactions at the level of the neighborhood are present. To address the endogeneity of location choices, we also implement a weighting scheme that combines insights from inverse propensity score weighting and Bartik-shift-share instrumentation. The good performance of our approach is demonstrated in a Monte Carlo study. In our empirical application a unique large administrative dataset of recent Turkish labor immigrants to The Netherlands is used. We find a positive spatial interaction parameter and show that the local spatial multipliers are substantial." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Linked Employer–Employee Data from XING and the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (2025)
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Breithaupt, Patrick, Hanna Hottenrott, Christian Rammer & Konstantin Römer (2025): Linked Employer–Employee Data from XING and the Mannheim Enterprise Panel. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jg. 245, H. 6, S. 689-703. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2024-0070
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"The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a career-oriented social networking platform. The employment data are exported from user profiles and linked to the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP). The linked employer–employee (LEE) data consist of 14 million employments for 1.5 million employers and describes around 9 million employee flows. Plausibility checks confirm that career-oriented social networking data contain valuable information about employments and employee flows. Using such platform data provides opportunities for research on employee mobility, networks, and local ecosystems’ role in economic performance at the employer and the regional level." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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You’ll never walk alone: unemployment, social networks and leisure activities (2025)
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Filomena, Mattia & Matteo Picchio (2025): You’ll never walk alone: unemployment, social networks and leisure activities. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 77, H. 4, S. 1062-1079. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpaf015
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"We analyse how unemployment affects individuals’ social networks, leisure activities, and related satisfaction measures. We use the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch population. We estimate the effects by inverse propensity score weighting in a difference-in-differences design to deal with unobserved heterogeneity and unbalanced covariate distribution between treated and control units potentially associated with the dynamics of the outcome variables. We find that, after job loss, individuals increase their network size by strengthening their closest family contacts, spending more time with neighbors, and using social media more frequently. Additionally, our results show that job losers derive more enjoyment from their leisure time, with an increase in the time spent on private activities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Local Networks and New Business Formation (2025)
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Füner, Lena, Marius Berger, Johannes Bersch & Hanna Hottenrott (2025): Local Networks and New Business Formation. In: Journal of economics & management strategy, S. 1-28. DOI:10.1111/jems.70003
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"New business formation is a key driver of regional transformation and development. While we know that a region's attractiveness for new businesses depends on its resources, infrastructure, and human capital, we know little about the role of local business networks in promoting or impeding the birth of new firms. We construct local business networks connecting more than 350 million nodes consisting of managers, owners, and firms using data on the universe of German businesses. Differentiating between firms founded by serial and de novo entrepreneurs and different network measures (average degree and transitivity of the largest component), we show that the connectedness between actors within a region matters for firm entry and individual firm performance. We show a positive relationship between a region's connectedness and firm entry by serial entrepreneurs. Networks are also linked to individual firm performance, especially in terms of larger entry size of de-novo firms and higher employment growth for both de-novo and serial entrepreneurship." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley) ((en))
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The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain (2025)
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González-Heras, Alejandro, Joan Rodríguez-Soler & Joan M. Verd (2025): The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain. In: Journal of Youth Studies, S. 1-18. DOI:10.1080/13676261.2025.2518952
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"Young people in southern European countries experience particularly difficult transitions between training and employment. In these countries, leaving aside training and work experience, the support of personal networks – which can be conceptualized as social capital – is particularly important in young people’s access to employment. The article’s objective is to identify the extent to which bonding, bridging and linking social capital play a similar role in precarious employment transitions to that described in the literature for more general labour market transitions. To study this role, the article explores data on the labour market trajectory and the mobilization of social connections of young people in Spain, collected by means of a hybrid questionnaire. A set of multilevel logistic regressions is applied to these data, taking the type of contract as a dependent variable. The results show that bridging and linking social capital are useful for avoiding the most precarious employment situation in the careers analysed (informal employment), but they are not associated with stable employment. Furthermore, when the distinction between hierarchical and non-hierarchical bonding social capital is introduced, the results show that only hierarchical bonding (i.e. vertical ties) is negatively associated to the most precarious employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do caseworker meetings prevent unemployment? Evidence from a field experiment (2025)
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Homrighausen, Pia & Michael Oberfichtner (2025): Do caseworker meetings prevent unemployment? Evidence from a field experiment. In: European Economic Review. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105215
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"Caseworker meetings have been shown to accelerate exit from unemployment. We investigate whether they are also effective before job loss. In a natural field experiment in Germany, where workers must register with the employment agency up to three months before becoming unemployed, we offer caseworker meetings to jobseekers while they are still employed. Our results indicate that offering preventive meetings does not improve jobseekers’ labour market outcomes, despite bringing forward the first meeting. The intervention increases the total number of meetings, thereby consuming scarce caseworker resources, but does not influence jobseekers’ search behaviour - likely explaining its lack of effectiveness." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier) ((en))
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Soziale Netzwerke und Arbeitsmarktprozesse (2025)
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Kropp, Per & Gerhard Krug (2025): Soziale Netzwerke und Arbeitsmarktprozesse. In: C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Hrsg.) (2025): Handbuch Netzwerkforschung, S. 697-709, 2024-01-15. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-37507-2_56-1
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"Bestimmte Netzwerkeigenschaften, aber auch die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen auf einem Arbeitsmarkt beeinflussen die Bedeutung von Netzwerken bei der Arbeitsplatzsuche und bei der Stellenbesetzung. Insgesamt zeigen der knappe Überblick zum Forschungsstand und eigene Analysen, dass Granovetters Thesen zur Bedeutung von Netzwerken zwar vielfältige Forschung angeregt haben, sich aber nur partiell bestätigen lassen. Netzwerke können die Job-Suche erleichtern, indem sie Zugang zu nicht offensichtlichen Informationen über Arbeitsplätze bieten, oder sie öffnen über Empfehlungen den Weg auf eine bestimmte Position. Indirekt wirken sozialer Ressourcen zum Beispiel durch emotionale Unterstützung oder weil eine bessere Marktübersicht fundierterer Entscheidungen erlaubt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer)
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What makes a good place to work? The effect of internal corporate social responsibility on word-of-mouth for employers (2025)
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Mutter, Anna, Jasmin Afrahi & Thomas Armbrüster (2025): What makes a good place to work? The effect of internal corporate social responsibility on word-of-mouth for employers. In: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Jg. 36, H. 11, S. 1807-1833. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2025.2534339
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"Word-of-mouth for employers (WOME; i.e., employees talking positively about their employer organization) is a valuable corporate means of recruitment in times of employee shortage and war for talent. However, research on the determinants of WOME is fragmented, and the identification of success factors is incomplete. Based on research on word-of-mouth mechanisms and social exchange theory, which explains exchange relationships between sender and receiver, we elaborate on a model of WOME that comprises classic and emerging factors of workplace attractiveness (monetary compensation, work environment, and workplace fun) and internal corporate social responsibility (ICSR). We hypothesize that ICSR exhibits the greatest explanatory power for WOME. We tested our assumption with a data set of 132,995 participants from 13 industrial sectors in Germany and ran a multiple linear regression analysis with four independent variables and WOME as the dependent variable. ICSR proved to have the greatest effect on WOME, which we consider a result of employees’ interest in a fair exchange relationship with their employers, followed by workplace fun, the work environment, and monetary compensation. We discuss the results in terms of the above-mentioned theories and point out directions for future research as well as practical implications." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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‘You Need a Network’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities (2025)
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Ryan, Louise, María López, Alessia Dalceggio & Farzana Adell (2025): ‘You Need a Network’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities. In: Sociology. DOI:10.1177/00380385251363897
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"Drawing upon social network analysis and longitudinal research with recently resettled Afghans in London, this article advances understanding of social capital in navigating upward mobility and rebuilding professional identities. Forced migration may result in the sudden rupturing of social ties (‘torn nets’) and loss of status which may undermine one’s sense of self. Even the most experienced and highly qualified professionals may face deskilling – ‘starting from zero’. While acknowledging structural barriers, and racialised discrimination, it is important to understand refugees’ strategies to rebuild careers. Building upon the ‘presentation of the networked self’, we explore the role of relationality in how professional identity is reclaimed. Social networks can be useful routes to jobs. However, we argue that the extent to which social connections may help with reclaiming one’s former career depends, partly, on forging ‘vertical ties’ with those who are willing and able to recognize and legitimate that professional status." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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New country, new ties? Eritrean and Syrian refugees’ personal social networks after arrival in Germany (2025)
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Sauer, Lenore, Ludovica Gambaro & Elisabeth K. Kraus (2025): New country, new ties? Eritrean and Syrian refugees’ personal social networks after arrival in Germany. In: Comparative Migration Studies, Jg. 13. DOI:10.1186/s40878-025-00443-1
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"This paper examines the new ties refugees form within the first years after arriving in destination countries. While prior research has assessed new ties mainly in relation to integration outcomes and within inter-ethnic ties, our analyses take a broader view of the importance of new contacts by systematically adopting an ego-centric network approach and by differentiating between various types of networks (emotional support, companionship, and practical support network). Drawing on representative quantitative survey data of recent refugees from Eritrea and Syria collected in Germany in 2020 (TransFAR survey), our analytical approach is divided into two parts: First, we investigate on the alter-level (i.e., the persons mentioned in the network) who the newly met persons are and which kind of support they provide, employing descriptive analyses. Second, we conduct multivariate regression analyses on the ego-level (i.e., the respondent) to examine the migration and family-related factors associated with forming new ties. The empirical findings underscore the importance of new contacts as crucial sources of resources and support, particularly in providing practical assistance. Furthermore, our study shows that migration and family-related factors are important for establishing new ties: refugees having other family members in Germany, either a spouse or because they arrived together with kin, are less likely to include newly established contacts in their networks compared to those without a spouse or who arrived in Germany without family. The relative importance of these factors varies between network types. Moreover, as migration circumstances and family constellations differ by gender and country of origin, substantial variations concerning the formation of new ties are observed between men and women and between refugees from Eritrea and Syria." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Handbuch Netzwerkforschung (2025)
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Stegbauer, Christian & Roger Häußling (Hrsg.) (2025): Handbuch Netzwerkforschung. (Netzwerkforschung 04), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 1003 S.
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"Das Buch bietet einen weitreichenden Überblick über Forschungs- und Theoriebereiche in der Netzwerkforschung. Neben einem einführenden Teil zur Geschichte der Netzwerkforschung, zum Selbstverständnis und zu den wichtigsten theoretischen Grundlagen werden Methoden der Netzwerkforschung behandelt. Das wachsende Paradigma wird in immer mehr wissenschaftlichen und anwendungsorientierten Disziplinen als erkenntnisleitendes Prinzip und als Methode eingesetzt. Ein Überblick über viele dieser Felder bildet einen weiteren Schwerpunkt. Das Buch wird ergänzt durch einen Serviceteil, in dem Lehrbücher vorgestellt werden. Das Handbuch wendet sich damit sowohl an Neueinsteiger in die Thematik als auch an Experten. Am Buch sind die wesentlichen Autorinnen und Autoren der deutschsprachigen Netzwerkforschung beteiligt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer)
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Being Your Own Boss: Network Determinants of Young People’s Orientations Towards Self-Employment (2025)
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Vacchiano, Mattia, Vera de Bel & Eric Widmer (2025): Being Your Own Boss: Network Determinants of Young People’s Orientations Towards Self-Employment. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 176, H. 1, S. 195-217. DOI:10.1007/s11205-024-03443-3
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"Young people today are expected to navigate their precarious careers in an entrepreneurial way. Self-employment is gaining ground on wage labor as one attractive strategy for winning the battle with precariousness. From Granovetter’s studies to the present day, one of the most prolific lines of research on the factors influencing the strategies of job insertion emphasizes the key importance of personal networks. Based on social capital theory, this article tests (1) whether the composition of young people’s personal networks is associated with their desire to move towards independent careers; and (2) whether, among the mechanisms associated with this orientation, there is the ability to mobilize contacts’ resources, for example, avoiding conflict and exploiting different forms of social support. Analyzing data on the personal networks of a sample of 7827 young people in Switzerland, our results show that the orientation towards self-employment is more likely for those who access contacts with an unfavourable position in the labor market, such as people with lower educational levels and a foreign background. Although receiving social support plays a role, our results show that, for young people wishing to become self-employed, an even more important predictor is the presence of conflicts in their networks. In the context of the precarization of young people’s labour pathways, these results suggest that self-employment can serve as a coping strategy for the most vulnerable, as well as an escape from difficult relationships." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets (2024)
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Bolte, Lukas, Matthew O. Jackson & Nicole Immorlica (2024): The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets. In: Journal of labor economics, S. 1-76. DOI:10.1086/733048
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"We study the consequences of job markets’ heavy reliance on referrals. Referrals lead to more opportunities for workers to be hired, which lead to better matches andincreased productivity, but also disadvantage job-seekers with few or no connections to employed workers, increasing inequality. Coupled with homophily, referrals also lead to immobility. We identify conditions under which distributing referrals more evenly reduces inequality and improves future productivity and mobility. We use the model to examine the short and long-run welfare impacts of policies such as affirmative actionand algorithmic fairness." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income (2024)
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Corinth, Kevin, Thomas O'Rourke & Scott Winship (2024): The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17257), Bonn, 59 S.
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"There have been several attempts to measure social capital—the value inhering in relationships—at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct linkage and imputation across several nationally representative datasets, we produce a comprehensive measure of social capital at the individual level. We validate our measure by aggregating it to the state level, finding strong correlations with existing state-level social capital measures. We document substantial social capital disparities between white Americans, on the one hand, and black and Hispanic Americans, on the other, as well as a strong educational gradient, which is comparatively weaker for Hispanics. We also provide new evidence on the relationship between income and social capital, using a comprehensive measure of income. We find that social capital increases with income but at a decreasing rate. The source of income matters, as an extra $10,000 in market income is associated with a 0.23 standard deviation increase in social capital for those with the lowest levels of market income, while an extra $10,000 in government transfer income is associated with a 0.08 standard deviation decrease." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Coworker Networks from Student Jobs: A Flying Start at Labor Market Entry? (2024)
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Demir, Gökay, Friederike Hertweck, Malte Sandner & Ipek Yükselen (2024): Coworker Networks from Student Jobs: A Flying Start at Labor Market Entry? (Ruhr economic papers 1127), Essen, 31 S. DOI:10.4419/96973309
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"In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie sich die während Studentenjobs gebildeten Netzwerke auf den Arbeitsmarkteintritt von Studierenden nach Abschluss des Studiums auswirken. Für unsere Analyse verwenden wir eine neuartige Datenverknüpfung aus administrativen Universitätsdaten von Studierenden und Sozialversicherungsdaten der Studierenden sowie all ihrer Kolleginnen und Kollegen während der Studentenjobs. Unsere empirische Strategie nutzt Variationen im Zeitpunkt und in der Dauer der Studentenjobs und kontrolliert für eine Vielzahl von individuellen und Netzwerk-Charakteristika sowie für fixe Effekte zu Unternehmen und der Berufsgruppe, um mögliche Verzerrungen zu eliminieren, die sich aus der nicht zufälligen Selektion der Studierenden in bestimmte Studentenjobs und Netzwerke ergeben. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Studierende, die während ihrer Studentenjobs mit besser verdienenden Kollegen zusammenarbeiten, in ihrer ersten Anstellung nach dem Studium höhere Löhne erzielen. Zwei Mechanismen scheinen für diesen Effekt verantwortlich zu sein: (1) Sortierung der Studierenden in besser zahlende Unternehmen nach dem Abschluss (unterstützt durch Empfehlungen ehemaliger Kolleginnen und Kollegen) und (2) verbessertes fachspezifisches Humankapital durch den Kontakt mit qualifizierten Kolleginnen und Kollegen während des Studentenjobs. Der anfängliche Lohnvorteil durch die besser verdienenden Netzwerke nimmt jedoch im Laufe der Zeit ab, da Studierende mit schlechteren Netzwerken aufholen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Coworker Networks from Student Jobs: A Flying Start at Labor Market Entry? (2024)
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Demir, Gökay, Friederike Hertweck, Malte Sandner & Ipek Yükselen (2024): Coworker Networks from Student Jobs: A Flying Start at Labor Market Entry? (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17541), Bonn, 34 S.
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"This paper analyzes the impact of college students’ coworker networks formed during student jobs on their labor market outcomes after graduation. For our analysis, we use novel data that links students’ administrative university records with their pre- and postgraduation employment registry data and their coworker networks. Our empirical strategy exploits variation in the timing and duration of student jobs, controlling for a variety of individual and network characteristics, as well as firm-by-occupation fixed effects, eliminating potential selection bias arising from non-random entry into student jobs and networks. The results show that students who work alongside higher-earning coworkers during their student jobs earn higher wages in their first post-graduation employment. Two key mechanisms appear to drive this effect: (1) sorting into higher-paying firms after graduation, facilitated by coworker referrals, and (2) enhanced field-specific human capital through exposure to skilled colleagues. However, the initial wage advantage from higherearning coworker networks diminishes over time as students with worse networks catch up. Our findings contribute to the understanding of how early career networks shape labor market outcomes and facilitate a smoother transition from higher education to graduate employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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