Impact of Human Capital and Weak Ties in Social Networks on Employability

Authors : Mahmut Özer

Pages : 254-274

Doi:10.46778/goputeb.1351495

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Publication Date : 2023-10-31

Article Type : Other

Abstract :Countries attach special importance to improving the quality of their human capital to sustain their development processes and enhance their competitive strength. The most effective instrument for achieving this goal is education. For this reason, countries allocate substantial budgets to ensure universality in their education systems, aiming to enable the participation of all citizens in education. This process has led to massification in education and, therefore, has brought a heated debate about what needs to be done in the education system and the labor market to ensure a smooth transition from school to work. In these discussions, the problems related to the transition from school to work are often primarily associated with deficiencies in the education system. However, this trend overlooks many hidden social networks and actual employment dynamics in this transition. Thus, the current study addresses employability based on the Granovetter network model, which has played a pioneering role in understanding employment dynamics and continues to be relevant. The study explores the Granovetter model and the significance of weak ties, the relationship between the Granovetter model and new network models, and the Matthew Effect in the Granovetter model. Furthermore, it emphasizes that acting based on the insights from this model in the transition from school to work is as crucial as human capital.
Keywords : Beşerî Sermaye, Granovetter Ağı, Zayıf Bağ, Matta Etkisi, Okuldan İşe Geçiş, İstihdam