Although the dominant paradigm of immigrant employment views immigrants as clustered in
a limited number of occupations or industries that comprise a niche, the explanations of how …

Stressing the network's facilitation of immigrants' searches for jobs and housing, migration
network theory has conceptually overlooked the manner in which immigrants' social …

SuSan EckStEin and Giovanni PEri standing of the labor market experiences of new
immigrants and of the opportunities and constraints they face in the economic niches in …

This paper offers a reconsideration and reconceptualization of the role of immigrant social
networks in the labor market. As the literature suggests, and as I show, the social …

Weak ties, particularly those to potential employers, play a more important role than strong
ties in the immigration of professionals to the United States. I operationalize network strength …

Immigrants concentrate in particular lines of work. Most investigations of such employment
niching have accented either the demand for labor in a limited set of mostly low-wage …

Though information about jobs passed through personal networks has been central to the
labor market integration of immigrants in the United States, its role in the economic …

Under-employment and unemployment of immigrants has often been attributed to
immigrants' lack of human capital skills and/or cultural and social capital endowments. Few …

Immigrants have become an important source of talent as well as a flash point for conflict in
many countries. Alongside established streams of research on immigrants in other …

Studies of immigrant labor market incorporation in the unregulated sector of the US
economy either assume that immigrant workers are trapped in low-wage jobs because of …