Immigrant performance in the labour market [[electronic resource] ] : bonding and bridging social capital / / Bram Lancee

• Autore: Lancee Bram
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.62
• Soggetto topico: Foreign workers - Europe; Immigrants - Europe
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market; Table of contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction and research questions; 2 Social capital theory; 3 Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands; 4 Immigrants' social capital and labour market outcomes; 5 The case of the Netherlands; 6 The case of Germany; 7 Interethnic and intra-ethnic friendships and unemployment duration for Turkish immigrants and native Germans; 8 Conclusions on immigrants' bonding and bridging social capital; Appendix; References; Other IMISCOE titles
• Sommario/riassunto: This definitive study offers an in-depth analysis of the role of social capital in Western labour markets. To address the vital question of how migrants take advantage of social relations between indigenous people and their own ethnic group, Lancée surveys the impact of various forms of social capital on the integration of immigrants into their new labour markets in Germany and the Netherlands, producing an important data comparison for those two bordering countries.
• Titolo autorizzato: Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market
• ISBN: 1-280-66701-X; 9786613643940; 90-485-1495-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996214645603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: IMISCOE Research