This chapter reviews scholarship on how the matching of people to jobs is influenced by
networks of interpersonal ties. By all accounts, that role is substantial on both the individual's …

Duke University lation and adaptation to exploitation work differently when all parties are
intimately connected to one another (as within households) or when most do not even know …

Employee referral hiring, an organization's use of current employees' social networks
(referrers) to fill job openings with new hires (referred workers), is a popular organization …

From a social capital theoretical perspective, deficiencies in access to mainstream ties and
institutions explain persistent joblessness among the black urban poor. Little problematized …

Racial disparities persist throughout the employment process, with African Americans
experiencing significant barriers compared to whites. This article advances the …

Network processes have long been implicated in the reproduction of labor market inequality,
but it remains unclear whether white male networks provide more social capital resources …

This paper aims at explaining to what extent social capital can help immigrants in the
Netherlands make headway on the labor market. Two forms of social capital are identified …

It is common for scholars interested in race and poverty to invoke a lack of access to job
networks as one of the reasons that African Americans and Hispanics face difficulties in the …

Researchers have commonly invoked isolation from job opportunities as an explanation for
persistence of gender and race inequality in the labor market, but few have examined …

Unemployment among black Americans is twice that of whites. Myriad theories have been
put forward to explain the persistent employment gap between blacks and whites in the US …