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Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany
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McDonald, 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
All Work and No Pay: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City
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Bernhardt, Annette; Spiller, Michael W.; Polson, Diana – Social Forces, 2013
Despite three decades of scholarship on economic restructuring in the United States, employers' violations of minimum wage, overtime and other workplace laws remain understudied. This article begins to fill the gap by presenting evidence from a large-scale, original worker survey that draws on recent advances in sampling methodology to reach…
Descriptors: Labor Legislation, Employment Patterns, Labor, Labor Market
Maternity Leave in Turbulent Times: Effects on Labor Market Transitions and Fertility in Russia, 1985-2000
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Gerber, Theodore P.; Perelli-Harris, Brienna – Social Forces, 2012
Maternity leave policies are designed to ease the tension between women's employment and fertility, but whether they actually play such a role remains unclear. We analyze the individual-level effects of maternity leave on employment outcomes and on second conception rates among Russian first-time mothers from 1985-2000 using retrospective job and…
Descriptors: Females, Labor Market, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Education, Labor Markets and the Retreat from Marriage
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Harknett, Kristen; Kuperberg, Arielle – Social Forces, 2011
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study and the Current Population Survey, we find that labor market conditions play a large role in explaining the positive relationship between educational attainment and marriage. Our results suggest that if low-educated parents enjoyed the same, stronger labor market conditions as their…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Education Work Relationship, Surveys, Correlation
Uncertainty in Early Occupational Aspirations: Role Exploration or Aimlessness?
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Staff, Jeremy; Harris, Angel; Sabates, Ricardo; Briddell, Laine – Social Forces, 2010
Many youth in the United States lack clear occupational aspirations. This uncertainty in achievement ambitions may benefit socio-economic attainment if it signifies "role exploration," characterized by career development, continued education and enduring partnerships. By contrast, uncertainty may diminish attainment if it instead leads…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Career Development, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents
Labor Markets and Economic Incorporation among Recent Immigrants in Europe
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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