Social Networks, Job Changes, and Recruitment.
Publication information:
Gorman, Elizabeth, and Peter Marsden. 2001. “Social Networks, Job Changes, and Recruitment”. In Sourcebook on Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes, edited by Ivar Berg and Arne Kalleberg, 467-502. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Abstract
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 side and the employer’s side of the labor market. The mediation of job change and recruitment/selection processes by networks illustrates the embeddedness of labor market processes in ongoing structures of social relations (Granovetter 1985) with special clarity.