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Social Capital and Its Returns as an Explanation for Early Labor Market Success of Majority and Minority Members in the Netherlands

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ID2064272
AuthorsIds Baalbergen (0000-0001-7377-3336, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Eva Jaspers (0000-0002-8589-5899, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology)
Year2023
Volume165
Issue1
Pages53-76
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Indicators Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0303-8300 • E-ISSN: 1573-0921
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11205-022-03002-8
OpenAlexW4296949281
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited51

This paper tests whether social capital can explain differences in labor market success between ethnic majority and minority members. To overcome problems of reverse causality-labor market success is not only the result of social capital, but also leads to better networks-the focus is on adolescents who enter the labor market. Data from the 'Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey' are used (N = 2574) and matched to register data from Statistics Netherlands. Hypotheses are tested with structural equation models and a longitudinal approach. Two different mechanisms are tested: the capital deficit and the return deficit. Ethnic majority and minority members do not differ in social capital, thus refuting the capital deficit hypothesis. However, for majority members, the upper reachability of their social capital negatively affects chances of unemployment and positively affects chances of having a permanent contract. For minority members, no such effects were observed, indicating that the same level of social capital that benefits majorities, does not benefit minorities. More research into the return deficit minority members face is needed

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · Social capital · Sociology · Unemployment · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Social Capital and Networks · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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