Purpose The research community currently employs four very different versions of the social network concept: A social network is seen as a set of socially constructed role relations (e.g., friends, business partners), a set of interpersonal sentiments (e.g., liking, trust), a pattern of...

Debate continues over whether job instability in the United States is rising, with data and measurement complicating the search for definitive answers. In this paper we compare two cohorts of young white men from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), construct a rigorous measure of job...

Debate continues over whether job instability is rising in the United States, with data and measurement complicating the search for definitive answers. In this paper we compare two cohorts of young white men from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), construct a rigorous measure of job...