Job Search, Social Networks, and Local Labor-Market Dynamics: The Case of Paid Household Work in San Diego, California

Mattingly, Doreen J.

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.20.1.46

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“…Therefore, it would be wrong to suggest that highly skilled workers prefer exclusively strong or weak ties (cf. Granovetter 1973;Wegener 1991;Bian and Ang 1997;Mattingly 1999;Sanders et al 2002). I do not doubt that "Acquaintances, as compared to close friends, are more prone to move in different circles than one'ʹs self" (Granovetter 1995: 52---53), but information from close friends and colleagues is often more candid and trustworthy.…”

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“…Mattingly (1999) shows that paid household workers in San Diego, California, tend to use three principal forms of close social contacts to find work: first, through subcontracting arrangements; second, through job referrals from other domestic workers and third, through male family members. She argues that:…”

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“…This is in contrast to family members who most respondents cited as insignificant for job information, which suggests that strong ties are less important. Mattingly (1999) and Sanders et al (2002) argue that family members and friends are key sources of job information for helping migrants secure low---end jobs. In contrast, strong ties were less important for highly skilled British and Indian scientists.…”

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Strong or weak ties? British and Indian expatriate scientists finding jobs in Boston

Harvey¹

2008

Global Networks

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This paper analyses the different social networks that British and Indian scientists use to obtain job information in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector around Boston, Massachusetts. I argue that individual social networks are critical in helping highly skilled migrants find jobs. British and Indian scientists used both strong and weak ties to obtain jobs and there was no significant difference between senior and junior workers in terms of whether they relied on strong or weak ties. I argue that the terms strong ties and weak ties are problematic because they are not clearly understood or mutually exclusive.

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Harvey¹

2008

Global Networks

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“…The original spatial mismatch hypothesis (SMH) has been continuously discussed and challenged in many ways. Some scholars considered it a racial discrimination problem rather than a spatial problem [12] or a language problem [13,14]. Other scholars have concluded that the mismatch might be caused by differences in travel mode, i.e., car ownership, especially in cities with insufficient public transit systems, such as Detroit [15].…”

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Rail Transportation Lead Urban Form Change: A Case Study of Beijing

2017

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In the background of rapid urban metro transit construction in China, rail transportation becomes an important factor in shaping urban form. This case study focuses on the urban form changes caused by urban rail transportation development in Beijing and especially explores the synergetic links between urban planning and transportation from the perspective of a transportationpopulation-economy research framework. Based on population census surveys and basic economic unit census surveys on street district level, combined with digital urban metro lines on street district level, findings show that the population spatial distribution tends to disperse along the metro lines, and concentrates around metro network connections. The employment distribution turns to be more concentrated in high accessibility areas around metro intersections. The population and employment distributions indicate a job-housing mismatch, where the employment centers are concentrated in the central city, while residential centers are concentrated in suburban areas. The consequence of this mismatch is that regions with extreme job-housing imbalance also see higher degrees of imbalance in urban metro volume. This paper aims to provide insights on how to improve job accessibility and creating a more sustainable urban form, as well as promoting a synergetic development between urban planning and transportation.

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“…To date, however, with the exception of Mattingly's (1999) analysis of social networks and local labourmarket dynamics of household workers in San Diego, and Harner's (2000) study of Latino enclaves in Scottsdale, Arizona, remarkably few geographers have participated in the debate about the role of social networks in shaping and reshaping the ethnic experience in the US. This is curious since networks are always embedded in physical space, but despite this, prior scholars have overlooked this aspect of social network theory.…”

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Migration, embedded networks and social capital: towards theorising North American ethnic geography

Hardwick

2003

International Journal of Population Geography

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This paper critically evaluates the impacts of networks of ethnicity and social capital on the migration paths and settlement decisionmaking of refugees now living on the Paci®c Coast of the US. Of particular signi®cance are the social networks of two complex groups who relocated in large numbers to communities in central California and the Paci®c Northwest over the past decade. Postmodern sensitivities to race, space and place in recent years have revalidated humanistic approaches suggested by human geographers more than two decades ago. Today, however, this earlier humanistic approach is being reshaped to centre on unravelling and analysing social and placebased relationships. Rather than viewing migration in a narrow perspective (as a process happening in a particular place at a particular ®xed moment in time), human geographers have begun to use ethnographic methods to record migration processes. I build on the ideas and approaches of both thè old' and the`new' in this article, paying particular attention to the social relationships and networks that emerge at intersections of uidity, fusion, motion and negotiation, to appraise their role in constantly shaping and reshaping migration processes.

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Job Search, Social Networks, and Local Labor-Market Dynamics: The Case of Paid Household Work in San Diego, California

Cited by 50 publications

References 34 publications

Strong or weak ties? British and Indian expatriate scientists finding jobs in Boston

Strong or weak ties? British and Indian expatriate scientists finding jobs in Boston

Rail Transportation Lead Urban Form Change: A Case Study of Beijing

Migration, embedded networks and social capital: towards theorising North American ethnic geography

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