Action and Information in the Job Mobility Process: The Search Decision
作者研究了在职工作者决定是否搜索更好工作的过程，将社会学结构流动模型与经济学方法结合。核心概念包括机会、收益和初始筛选质量，这些因素共同影响搜索决策。作者认为，现有模型忽略了连接结构约束与工作变动的行动和信息机制。通过分析这些机制，作者解释了男女在流动倾向上的差异。实证结果支持结构主义假设，并强调了科尔曼倡导的行动方法在流动研究中的潜力。
Current sociological models of job mobility suppress the intervening action and information mechanisms that link structural constraints to job shifts. To remedy this, this paper joins core features of structural-mobility models to key elements of economic approaches to job change in an analysis of the employed worker's decision to search the market for a better job. The analysis highlights the complementarity of structural and action approaches by conceptualizing the forces governing the search decision in terms of the principal dimensions-opportunities and achievement gains-underlying job-mobility models. The basic framework is extended to include the quality of a worker's initial screen of a prospective job as a mechanism that promotes search. The concepts of opportunities, gains, and screen quality are then used to explain male-female differences in mobility orientations. The empirical findings both reinforce structuralist assumptions and underscore the promise of applying to the study of mobility processes the kind of action approach recently advocated by Coleman (1986).