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Author: Elder, Glen H., Jr.
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1. McDonald, Steve
Elder, Glen H., Jr.
When Does Social Capital Matter? Non-Searching for Jobs Across the Life Course
Social Forces 85,1 (September 2006): 522-549.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3844427
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Gender Differences; Job Search; Life Course; Social Capital

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Non-searchers - people who get their jobs without engaging in a job search - are often excluded from investigations of the role of personal relationships in job finding processes. This practice fails to capture the scope of informal job matching activity and underestimates the effectiveness of social capital. Moreover, studies typically obtain average estimates of social capital effectiveness across broad age ranges, obscuring variation across the life course. Analysis of early career and mid-career job matching shows that non-searching is associated with significant advantages over formal job searching. However, these benefits accrue only during mid-career and primarily among highly experienced male non-searchers. The results highlight the need to examine life course variations in social capital effectiveness and the role of non-searching as an important informal mechanism in the maintenance of gender inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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McDonald, Steve and Glen H. Elder. "When Does Social Capital Matter? Non-Searching for Jobs Across the Life Course." Social Forces 85,1 (September 2006): 522-549.