"With a Little Help from My Friends": Social Resources as an Explanation of Occupational Status and Income in West Germany, The Netherlands, and the United States
This paper gives a cross-national comparison, involving West German, Dutch, and United States data, on the use of social ties in the job-search process. Data for West Germany and the Netherlands are compared with the Lin et al. research on Albany-Schenectady and Troy. The findings show that (1) there is more use of informal sources in the U.S. than in West Germany and the Netherlands; (2) informal sources do not generally lead to higher occupational prestige and income; (3) for the Dutch data (no West German data are available for this question) greater social resources, that is, a contact per... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1988 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Articles |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/67/2/452 |