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Networks, work and inequality
McDonald, Steve (contributor) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743550
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Networks, work, and inequality
MacDonald, Steve (contributor) - 2013
The importance of social relationships at work has long been recognized in the social sciences. Interest in this topic has been renewed through scholarly and popular discussions of social capital as well as recent innovations in network data collection and analysis. These developments have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426662
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Networks, Work, and Inequality.
Keister, Lisa - 2013
This volume illuminates the processes by which social networks in work organizations can effectively generate, sustain and ameliorate social inequalities across individuals, firms and occupational fields. It offers valuable insights that inform researchers and policy makers regarding issues of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012690073
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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721364
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The sociology of work : from industrial sociology to work, employment and the economy
Edwards, Paul K. - 2019
The paper reviews the progress of the sociology of work in Britain since 1945. It identifies two long … associated with the last, that the field suffers from fragmentation and lack of integration in mainstream sociology. It … analysis of developments at the top of the class structure, that is a sociology of managers and of capital, and those at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016290
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Nachhaltige Arbeit : soziologische Beiträge zur Neubestimmung der gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisse
Barth, Thomas (ed.); Jochum, Georg (ed.); Littig, Beate (ed.) - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491042
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Work, employment and society : a journal of the British Sociological Association
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage; 1987-2001: London : … - 1.1987 -
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Work, employment & society : a journal of the British Sociological Association
Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.] : Sage; 1987-2001: London : …; … - 1.1987 -
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000446247
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Strong ties in a small world
Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348344
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Unemployment and happiness : successful policies for helping the unemployed need to confront the adverse effects of unemployment on feelings of life satisfaction
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2014
Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors related to impacts on happiness, such as adaptation, social work norms, social capital, religious beliefs, and psychological resources. Getting unemployed people back to work can...
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