Immigrant performance in the labour market : bonding and bridging social capital /

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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, inc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lancee, Bram (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2012.
Colección:IMISCOE research.
Temas:
Foreign workers.
Migration, immigration and emigration.
Social issues and processes.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Sociology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction and research questions
  • Research questions
  • Structure of the book
  • 2. Social capital theory
  • Introduction
  • Collective versus individual-level social capital
  • Bonding social capital
  • Bridging social capital
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
  • Introduction
  • Migration history and background of the ethnic groups
  • Immigration regime and integration policy
  • The labour market
  • Social capital in Germany and the Netherlands
  • Immigrants' social capital in Germany and the Netherlands
  • Differences and similarities in the macro-context
  • 4. Immigrants' social capital and labour market outcomes
  • Introduction
  • Labour market outcomes
  • Hypotheses referring to bridging
  • Hypotheses referring to bonding
  • Human capital
  • Social capital and labour market outcomes for men and women
  • 5. The case of the Netherlands
  • Introduction
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The case of Germany
  • Introduction
  • Data and measurement
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Interethnic and intra-ethnic friendships and unemployment
  • duration for Turkish immigrants and native Germans
  • Introduction
  • Hypotheses
  • Data and measurement
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Conclusions on immigrants' bonding and bridging social
  • capital
  • Overview
  • Findings
  • Open questions
  • Appendix: The measurement of social capital using cumulative scaling.

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