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Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital

To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies two forms of social capital that may work to increase employment, income and occupational status and, conversely, decrease unemployment. New insights into the concepts of bonding and bridging arise through quantitative research methods, using longitudinal and crosssectional data. Referring to a dense network with 'thick' trust, bonding is measured as family ties, co-ethnic ties and trust in the family. Bridging is seen in terms of interethnic ties, thus implying a crosscutting network with 'thin' trust. Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market reveals that although bonding allows immigrants to get by, bridging enables them to get ahead.

ISBN
978-90-4851-495-3
Language
Englisch

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Classification
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Subject
sociology
sociologie
ethnic group
Germany
labour economics
Netherlands
occupational prestige
social capital

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lancee, Bram
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Amsterdam University Press
(where)
Amsterdam
(when)
2012

DOI
doi:10.26530/OAPEN_418150
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  • Buch

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  • Lancee, Bram
  • Amsterdam University Press

Time of origin

  • 2012

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