Soziales Kapital und Bildungserfolg

Hoenig, Kerstin

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“…Unlike in the general labor market, in youth labor markets, using referrals does not lead to higher transition rates compared to formal job-search methods (Hoenig, 2019, Flap and Boxman, 2001, Roth, 2014a. Previous research hypothesized that young people especially rely on support from social contacts if they face poor opportunities at labor market entry.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is, however, little evidence that this applies to youth labor markets. For instance, Hoenig (2019) found no positive effect of referral use on finding a training place in the German apprenticeship market. Similarly, Flap and Boxman (2001) did not confirm the hypothesis that referrals help individuals to get a first job with a higher occupational prestige or income in the Netherlands.…”

Section: Referrals As a Job-search Strategy And Recruitment Channelmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…As has been hypothesized, these (non-)findings might be due to the fact that young people more frequently rely on informal search methods if they anticipate or experience difficulties during school-to-work transitions (cf. Hoenig, 2019;Kogan et al, 2013;Roth, 2014a). Against this backdrop, we discuss in the following section why young people should be more likely to use referrals by parents and (potentially other strong ties) when they need to compensate for otherwise poor opportunities.…”

Section: Referrals As a Job-search Strategy And Recruitment Channelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the general labor market, weak ties are more decisive for getting a job than strong ties, because they serve as a bridge to other job opportunities that are not accessible via an individual's closer network (Granovetter, 1973;Lin, 1999). In youth labor markets, however, family members and sometimes close friends, typically defined as strong ties, may be more relevant (Hoenig, 2019;Kogan et al, 2013;Roth, 2014bRoth, , 2018. Kramarz and Skans (2014) have even found that the probability of working at a particular company site increases considerably if a parent works there.…”

Section: Referrals As a Job-search Strategy And Recruitment Channelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous research does not support this expectation. More specifically, using these informal search methods does not generally enhance young people's chances of finding their first job or training place compared to using formal job-seeking channels (Hoenig, 2019;Flap and Boxman, 2001;Roth 2014a). To understand this puzzling finding, we ask: who relies on referrals by strong ties in order to support their school-to-work transitions?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?

Flohr

Protsch

2022

Acta Sociologica

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Social capital is often regarded as an important resource when searching for a job. However, unlike in the general labor market, in youth labor markets, leveraging network contacts does not necessarily enhance young people’s chances compared to formal job-search methods. Who then uses referrals by strong ties to support their school-to-work transitions? Drawing on the German National Educational Panel Study, we focus on noncollege-bound students searching for apprenticeship places. We investigate whether parental referrals are more likely to be used as a compensation strategy for limited opportunities due to regional conditions and lower levels of schooling and whether this search strategy entails a trade-off in terms of higher dropout risks. Our results indicate that in regions with poor regional labor market conditions, young people use parental referrals more often and also increasingly find apprenticeship places via referrals. Moreover, using referrals does not result in higher dropout risks. Lower-educated school leavers are also more likely to use referrals but they do not benefit from this search channel more than higher-educated youth. We conclude that social contacts can at least partly compensate for poor opportunities due to regional market conditions.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Referrals As a Job-search Strategy And Recruitment Channelmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Referrals As a Job-search Strategy And Recruitment Channelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Referrals As a Job-search Strategy And Recruitment Channelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?

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Protsch

2022

Acta Sociologica

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Ethnic Differences in Social Capital Mobilization at the Transition to Vocational Training in Germany

Roth

Weißmann

2023

Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment

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In this chapter, we provide an in-depth analysis of the differences between students with and without a migration background in Germany in mobilising social capital during the transition to vocational education and training (VET) after lower secondary education. Besides retrospective information, we analyse (hypothetical) prospective information. Furthermore, we distinguish between different kinds of social contacts and different types of support. Using data from the first five waves of starting cohort 4 (9th graders) of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) we find that students rely heavily on their social contacts, with parents playing the most important role. Regarding general information and support, we find only small ethnic differences in the mobilization of non-institutional social contacts. In contrast, adolescents with a migration background tend to receive specific assistance less often from relatives outside the nuclear family and substantively less often from parents. Our results suggest that the general motivation of non-institutional social contacts to provide support at the transition to VET does not differ between natives and migrants, but that the ability of these ties to provide more specific, instrumental assistance depends on their receiving-country-specific resources and thus on their migration history.

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Sagmeister

2020

Aktuelle Diskurse in Der Sozialwirtschaft III

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Soziales Kapital und Bildungserfolg

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Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?

Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?

Ethnic Differences in Social Capital Mobilization at the Transition to Vocational Training in Germany

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