How to Succeed in a Transnational Labor Market

Autor(en)
Roland Verwiebe, Christoph Reinprecht, Raimund Haindorfer, Laura Wiesböck
Abstrakt

This paper deals with job search strategies and wages among cross-border commuters residing in the Central European Region (CENTROPE). Our main aim is to investigate the role of social networks as constitutive for job searching and for successful labor market integration. We build upon a theoretical framework developed by Aguilera and Massey, reflecting on the nexus of social networks, job search methods, and related labor market outcomes. Methodologically, we use a new quantitative survey on the employment careers of cross-border commuters residing in the regions of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary bordering on Austria, conducted in the winter/spring of 2012/2013 (N = 2,573). Our results corroborate the hypothesis that human and social capital resources as well as labor market characteristics serve as key factors for job search and labor market integration among cross-border commuters in the CENTROPE transnational labor market.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Soziologie
Journal
International Migration Review
Band
51
Seiten
251-286
Anzahl der Seiten
36
ISSN
0197-9183
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12193
Publikationsdatum
2017
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
504021 Migrationsforschung
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Demography, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/a7e9d2ff-9a9d-4b13-a9e4-8cfe9010b712