Made out of people

Minorities, networks, and jobs

For some reason, Many2Many's article on Social Capital and Income isn't letting me post a comment. So it'll go here, and they can trackback it to read ...

To bolster the post, I saw a cite recently (I will dig it up upon request) that suggested that jobs with formal application processes are better for minorities and discriminated-against groups than jobs with informal applications.

That is, government jobs (for example), where your resume goes into a computer are more likely to hire a minority than research jobs, where a committee of people decide.

This is partially linked, I think, to racism--but more linked to networks. A student at a traditionally minority school may not have the same access to powerful networks, great connnections, and thus the initial "in" for the informally-collected jobs.