How to Succeed in a Transnational Labor Market: Job Search and Wages among Hungarian, Slovak, and Czech Commuters in Austria

• Published in: The International migration review Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 251 - 286
• Main Authors: Verwiebe, Roland, Reinprecht, Christoph, Haindorfer, Raimund, Wiesboeck, Laura
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.03.2017; SAGE Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Borders; Capital; Careers; Commuters; Commuting; Cultural capital; Economic integration; Employment; IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION: ORIGIN AND DESTINATION SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES; Integration; Job hunting; Job search; Job searching; Labor; Labor market; Markets; Migrant workers; Quantitative analysis; Search strategies; Searching; Social capital; Social integration; Social interactions; Social networks; Social organization; Transnationalism; Wages & salaries; Winter; Austria

This paper deals with job search strategies and wages among crossborder 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...