Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: Bonding and bridging social capital
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Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2012, IMISCOE Research
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LANCEE, Bram, Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: Bonding and bridging social capital, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2012, IMISCOE Research - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/21663
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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 cross-sectional data. Referring to a dense network with ‘thick’ trust, bonding is measured as family ties, coethnic ties and trust in the family. Bridging is seen in terms of inter-ethnic 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.
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--1. Introduction and research questions
--2. Social capital theory
--3. Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
--4. Immigrants’ social capital and labour market outcomes
--5. The case of the Netherlands
--6. The case of Germany
--7. Inter- and intra-ethnic friendships and unemployment duration for Turkish immigrants and native Germans
--8. Conclusions on immigrants’ bonding and bridging social capital
The measurement of social capital using cumulative scaling
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Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2010