Obtaining employment is one of the most difficult challenges for individuals released from
prison. This research explores the strategies recently released male parolees employ in …

Wasta is an Arabic concept that describes the use of close friends and family members,
rather than formal means, to resolve conflicts and gain access to resources. An …

Research in sociology demonstrates the way social connections shape access to
information about job opportunities. In education, we understand less about how social …

The existing literature has well studied the use of social contacts in job search, including
gender inequality, in using social contacts. What is missing is the perspective of social …

Drawing from a unique dataset based on 146 in-depth, semistructured interviews with a
nonrandom sample of ethnoracially and class diverse workers at one large public sector …

T he interwoven, constructs with of social each class sharing and core career underlying
development constructs. are uniquely Socio-k economic status (SES) is reflected by …

Does the ethnoracial composition of local labor markets influence informal regulation of
employment opportunities? To address this question, we link Census data on racial …

Living at or near poverty can be isolating for individuals and their families. Using the
ecological perspective with emphasis on transactions across systems, we examine the …

Research finds that faith-based organizations (FBOs) serve highly disadvantaged
populations, but few studies explore how such organizations decide who is deserving of …

Despite the high failure rate of African American small businesses in the United States, only
2% of the US Small Business Administration loans in 2016 were awarded to African …