The family as (one- or two-step) social capital: mechanisms of support during labor market transitions

Vacchiano, Mattia; Yepes-Cayuela, Lidia; Martí, Joël

doi:10.1080/13668803.2019.1687425

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“…This role of contacts is crucial because through them young people access opportunities they are unaware of but that can fulfil their needs and ambitions. Although social capital theory stresses the importance of mobilizing weak connections to gain new information about job opportunities (Granovetter, 1973), research suggests that strong ties may also play an important role, especially in those contexts where obligation and reciprocity are core values, as this research also highlights (Vacchiano et al, 2019; Bian, 1997). Our results bring to light three mechanisms whereby weak and strong contacts play different but complementary roles in information-sharing.…”

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“…Of course, many inequalities are involved in these processes as well. Family and professional networks are the result of class backgrounds (Lin, 2000; see McPherson et al, 2001 on the homophily principle), and it seems clear that, having access to contacts with greater social prestige, the upper classes can influence employers more effectively (Vacchiano et al, 2019). Research has also shown that, in disadvantaged groups, issues with social capital are not only limited to accessing it, but also involve convincing contacts to share their resources, for example, making a recommendation (Smith, 2005).…”

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Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Finding Through Contacts Among Young Adults

Vacchiano

2021

Sociological Research Online

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Since Granovetter’s seminal works, the influence of personal networks on the labour market has attracted widespread attention. This article analyses the role played by contacts in the context of the labour trajectories of young people in Spain, for whom the use of personal networks represents one of the most important job-searching methods. Using narrative data extracted from a life-history grid and ego-network generator, the analysis brings to light nine mechanisms in which personal contacts intervene in job-searching and job-finding in a sample of 90 young people living in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. The article emphasizes that contacts play primarily three roles in these processes as informers, employers, or influencers. This distinction offers a renewed framework for the study of networks in the labour market, further complementing the debate on the strength of ties. Using this framework allows me to create a map of the mechanisms that shed light on personal networks as tools with which to deal with labour insecurity and unemployment among young people, thus providing resources that to a large extent reaffirm the objective character of class differences. The article offers innovative insights into how social capital operates in the labour market and helps understand how youth precarity, which is widespread in Spain, is experienced in a relational way.

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Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Finding Through Contacts Among Young Adults

Vacchiano

2021

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“…In the first wave, respondents named the occupations of both their parents. The occupation with the highest ISEI is included, which is a source of ascribed social capital in itself (Vacchiano et al, 2021 ). Furthermore, a dummy variable about the gender of respondents (0 = female , 1 = male ), and a continuous variable about the age of respondents are included.…”

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Social Capital and Its Returns as an Explanation for Early Labor Market Success of Majority and Minority Members in the Netherlands

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Jaspers

2022

Soc Indic Res

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This paper tests whether social capital can explain differences in labor market success between ethnic majority and minority members. To overcome problems of reverse causality—labor market success is not only the result of social capital, but also leads to better networks—the focus is on adolescents who enter the labor market. Data from the ‘Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey’ are used (N = 2574) and matched to register data from Statistics Netherlands. Hypotheses are tested with structural equation models and a longitudinal approach. Two different mechanisms are tested: the capital deficit and the return deficit. Ethnic majority and minority members do not differ in social capital, thus refuting the capital deficit hypothesis. However, for majority members, the upper reachability of their social capital negatively affects chances of unemployment and positively affects chances of having a permanent contract. For minority members, no such effects were observed, indicating that the same level of social capital that benefits majorities, does not benefit minorities. More research into the return deficit minority members face is needed.

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“…The difference with the most common quant → QUAL design is that only one tool (and one source) was used to collect the quantitative and qualitative data. This was the strategy followed by Vacchiano et al (2021). However, other types of integrated analyses in which either qualitative or quantitative information takes priority in the analysis are possible.…”

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Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data

Verd

2022

Int J Soc Welfare

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This article explains the factors that led to the use of a hybrid data collection tool-i.e., a single questionnaire designed to collect both quantitative and qualitative data-in two different research projects that focused on the relation between the labour market trajectories of young people and the use and accumulation of network social capital in these trajectories. The article describes the characteristics of this tool and the methodological challenges posed by its use.The advantages and disadvantages of this specific type of data collection are also addressed. Among the main advantages, the improvement of data quality and the overarching picture obtained of the career path and use of personal networks are highlighted. The most important downside found is the amount of time needed in the interview, which shows the need to pay attention to the balance between quantitative and qualitative elements in the structure of the questionnaire. K E Y W O R D Shybrid methods, job seeking, labour market trajectories, mixed methods data collection, personal networks, sequential data, Spain, youth Abbreviations: REDEMAS, Social networks as a mechanism for job search and labour market insertion in young people; CAPSINES, The accumulation and use of social capital among young people with unstable labour market trajectories.

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The family as (one- or two-step) social capital: mechanisms of support during labor market transitions

Cited by 10 publications

References 59 publications

Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Finding Through Contacts Among Young Adults

Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Finding Through Contacts Among Young Adults

Social Capital and Its Returns as an Explanation for Early Labor Market Success of Majority and Minority Members in the Netherlands

Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data

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