Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China
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Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China.
While the idea that contacts matter in finding a job is intuitively appealing, we still do not know-after decades of research-how and why strong ties benefit job seekers. To resolve this confusion, we need to theorize how specific characteristics of ties are related to the mechanisms that make job search through contacts effective. We have reasons to expect that, while a contact's motivation in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Science Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0049-089X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.12.010