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The Rise of Market-Based Job Search Institutions and Job Niches for Low-Skilled Chinese Immigrants

Zai Liang, Bo Zhou
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2018, 4 (1) 78-95; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.05
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aProfessor of sociology at the State University of New York at Albany
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vol. 4 no. 1 78-95
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.05

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  • Published online January 1, 2018.

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© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Liang, Zai, and Bo Zhou. 2018. “The Rise of Market-Based Job Search Institutions and Job Niches for Low-Skilled Chinese Immigrants.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(1): 78–95. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.1.05. The portion of the study using data from a survey of employment agencies in New York City’s Chinatown was supported by the Russell Sage Foundation (88-10-06), whose support is gratefully acknowledged. The 2004 Survey of Chinese Immigrants was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01 HD39720-0) and the Ford Foundation (1025-1056). We thank Jian Cao for assistance with historical data from Chinese newspapers and Feinuo Sun for gathering critical data on Chinese immigrant hometown associations in the United States. The authors also thank three anonymous reviewers and editors for very constructive comments and suggestions. Direct correspondence to: Zai Liang at zliang@albany.edu, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222; and Bo Zhou at bzhou3@albany.edu. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Zai Lianga and
  2. Bo Zhoub
  1. aProfessor of sociology at the State University of New York at Albany
  2. bDoctoral candidate at the State University of New York at Albany
  1. Corresponding authors:
    Zai Liang, (zliang{at}albany.edu); Bo Zhou, (bzhou3{at}albany.edu)
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    • THE EMERGENCE OF MARKET-BASED JOB SEARCH INSTITUTIONS
    • NETWORK-BASED VERSUS MARKET-BASED JOB SEARCH PROCESSES
    • DATA COLLECTION FOR THE STUDY
    • THE INCREASING DIVERSIFICATION OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS
    • THE SPATIAL DIFFUSION OF CHINESE IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS
    • A CHINESE-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER AND THE NEW IMMIGRANT JOB NICHES
    • IMPLICATIONS OF A MARKET-BASED JOB SEARCH PROCESS
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