.... Findings The multinomial regression results indicate that there was little difference in the strategies employed by students before the crisis compared to those that secured them during, potentially indicating that students are unwilling to deviate from typical job search strategies, especially in times...

.... Design/methodology/approach Since Granovetter’s (1973) pioneer study, scholars are interested in investigating in what way social network influence our job searching outcomes. However, these researchers have not yet yielded consistent results. Scholars argue that the institutional context of labour...

...Brigitte Schels; Arne Bethmann Modern welfare states are concerned about welfare dependency and that welfare recipients may rely solely on benefits without searching for a job and that job search efforts may even decline over lasting welfare receipt. In reaction to this concern, and similar...

... at their return to – a fulltime – job should consider individual social network factors besides psychological and human capital factors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate welfare recipients’ job search behaviour, in particular how individual social capital is distributed, and whether it is related...