The authors explore how career paths are shaped by the involvement of search firms in hiring. Drawing on theories market intermediation, they argue that constrain horizontal moves across functions and industries favoring workers from within same function industry as role being filled. Using survey data 1,342 job undertaken 816 MBA alumni, find individuals who move jobs through a firm experience...

The article investigates educational and career paths of educated Roma youth in Hungary as striving to enter quality employment the business sector. While rate well-educated is high compared general population, their sectoral distribution skewed towards self-employment, public sector vis-à-vis private Our reasons for low presence sphere, a which holds greatest potential occupational social mobi...

This study analyses how the long-term modernisation process as well as ups and downs of business cycles affect the entry of men into the labour market in West Germany and their career mobility. Combining longitudinal data from the German Life History Study and the ALWA study, we first reconstructed men’s job histories continuously for the period between 1945 and 2008. As a measure of men’s ‘goo...