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Direct linkMcDonald, Steve; Benton, Richard A.; Warner, David F. – Social Forces, 2012
Drawing on the embeddedness, varieties of capitalism and macrosociological life course perspectives, we examine how institutional arrangements affect network-based job finding behaviors in the United States and Germany. Analysis of cross-national survey data reveals that informal job matching is highly clustered among specific types of individuals…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Social Networks
Verbakel, Ellen; DiPrete, Thomas A. – Social Forces, 2008
Comparisons of wellbeing between the United States and Western Europe generally show that most Americans have higher standards of living than do Western Europeans at comparable locations in their national income distributions. These comparisons of wellbeing typically privilege disposable income and cash transfers while ignoring other aspects of…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Living Standards, Quality of Life, Labor Market
Scott, Allen J. – Social Forces, 2007
The cognitive-cultural dimensions of contemporary capitalism are identified by reference to its leading sectors, basic technologies, labor relations systems and market structures. Cognitive-cultural systems of production and work come to ground preeminently in large city regions. This state of affairs is manifest in the diverse clusters of…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Social Systems, Employees, Labor Relations
Gerber, Theodore P.; Mayorova, Olga – Social Forces, 2006
We examine how the shift from state socialism affects gender inequality in the labor market using multivariate models of employment exit, employment entry, job mobility and new job quality for 3,580 Russian adults from 1991 through 1997. Gender differences changed in a complex fashion. Relative to men, women gained greater access to employment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Mobility, Labor Market, Human Capital
Kogan, Irena – Social Forces, 2006
The questions asked in the paper are whether and to what extent the employment situation among recent third-country immigrants differs across European Union countries and how it is related to these countries' labor market characteristics. The European Labor Force Survey data for the 1990s are used to disentangle the roles that the individual…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Labor Force
Wu, Xiaogang – Social Forces, 2006
This paper examines the patterns of entry into self-employment in urban and rural China and across different reform stages, focusing on how communist cadres have responded to new market opportunities. Analysis of data from a national representative survey shows that both education and cadre status deter people from entry into self-employment in…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Self Employment, Foreign Countries, Rural Urban Differences
