How to Get a Longer Job? Roles of Human and Social Capital in the J apanese Labor Market
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20482928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jun Kobayashi (0000-0002-7702-1024, Department of Contemporary Societies Seikei University 3‐24‐6, Kyonan‐cho Musasino‐shi Tokyo 180‐0023 Japan, corresponding author), Mei Kagawa (Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo 7‐3‐1 Hongo Bunkyo‐ku Tokyo 113‐0033 Japan, corresponding author), Yoshimichi Sato (0000-0001-8732-9308, Graduate School of Arts and Letters Tohoku University 27‐1, Kawauchi, Aoba‐ku Sendai 980‐8576 Japan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-29 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Japanese Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0918-7545 • E-ISSN: 1475-6781 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ijjs.12037 |
| OpenAlex | W1509990150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article investigates the roles of human and social capital played in the Japanese labor market. Our research question is whether they interact to accelerate or decelerate each other to provide first jobs of a long duration. Based on the literature, we focus on the bonding functions of friends and relatives. Using the 2005 S ocial S tratification and S ocial M obility S urvey D ata, we measure human capital by educational attainment (college education) and social capital by job search methods (using friends or relatives). The dependent variable is the hazard rate of turnover from the first job. We find that social capital especially benefits those with low human capital (high school graduates). When friends or relatives introduce workers to jobs, high school graduates tended to stay longer in their first jobs and had a lower turnover than college graduates did. This means that social capital decelerated effects of human capital. Therefore, in the J apanese labor market, social capital plays a complementary role in mitigating educational disadvantage
Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Economic capital · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Hazard · Human capital · Individual capital · Labour economics · Political science · Social capital · Sociology · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks
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Social mobility and social structure
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Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan
Dual Embeddedness
The American occupational structure
Social Capital
A Contextual Model of the Japanese
Informal Hiring and Income in the Labor Market
Leaving a Legacy
Social Resources and Mobility Outcomes
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |