Social Capital and Chinese Higher Education Graduates’ Employments: An Empirical Study in Shanxi Province
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- 10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_113How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Social capital; Higher education graduates; Employment; Position Generator
- Abstract
With the continuous expansion of the enrolment scale of Chinese colleges and universities, higher education graduates are facing great employment challenges. China has always been a “society of human relationship”, and the role of social capital in employment cannot be ignored. In order to explore the effects of social capital on the employment of Chinese higher education graduates, this study first reviews the theory of social capital and its application in employment. It investigates the social capital of 123 higher education graduates in Shanxi Province, China, and the method of “position generator” is used to measure graduates’ social capital. Through multiple linear review and binary logistic regression to analyse the data, the study draws the following two conclusions: (1) the occupational prestige of higher education graduates’ parents and the occupation range of their families’ friends will have a significant impact on the graduates’ personal occupational prestige. (2) when the parents of higher education graduates have higher occupation prestige, graduates are more likely to use their social capital to find occupation information. Finally, this research provides some insights for future studies.
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TY - CONF AU - Guotong Liu AU - Zilong Guo PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/16 TI - Social Capital and Chinese Higher Education Graduates’ Employments: An Empirical Study in Shanxi Province BT - Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Modern Educational Technology and Social Sciences (ICMETSS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 931 EP - 938 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_113 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_113 ID - Liu2022 ER -