Research On Influence Of Social Capital On Undergraduates' Employment

With the reform of university enrollment and employment mode, employment situation of undergraduates was under much pressure in recent years. In the background of both influence of human capital and social capital on employment, in this thesis, the author paid more attention to discuss the effect of social capital on undergraduates'employment.First of all, the author reviewed conception and theoretical system of social capital in domestic and overseas academia and summarized investigated subject, methods, and typical study results of informed related research.In the next place, the author used data of 2007 and 2008 from the project"Research on Combination Between Higher Education Scope Extension and Labour Market in Gansu Province"to make empirical analysis: firstly, to analyze on operation of social capital and its effect in applying for a job; secondly, to analyze influence on employment results from different manifestation modes of social capital; thirdly, by analyzing social capital from different angles, to find difference of social capital stock in different groups, difference in relationship of obtaining social capital, and difference of social capital in undergraduates'prospective monthly income, thereby to further verify that social capital occupied important position in employment.At last, from the whole analysis results, undergraduates in some universities of Gansu Province have been aware of the important effect of social capital on employment, but because of the difference in geo-location and sibship and lack of self social network relationship stock, undergraduates should use intrinsic resources better and at the same time they also need to accumulate and construct new social capital.