Survey research about the effect of online/offline social capital on university students job-hunting

本研究旨在探讨社会资本（信任他人、互惠、网络规模等）对日本大学生的就业过程及其结果产生影响。我们分三次进行纵向问卷调查：求职前后和毕业后。样本收集自5所大学的社会科学或人文科学学院。对数据的多变量分析表明，部分基于面对面关系的线下社会资本（互惠性和网络规模）对求职成功具有显著影响，而基于网络关系的线上社会资本对求职成功没有显著影响。

The purpose of this study is to examine how social capitals (trust to others, reciprocity, network size, etc.) have effects on job-hunting process and its results of Japanese university students. We conducted longitudinal questionnaire surveys in three times: pre- and post-period of job-hunting, and after graduation. Samples were collected from social- or human-science schools in 5 universities. Our multi-variate analysis of the data shows that some of offline social capitals (reciprocity and network size) based on face-to-face relationships have statistically significant effect to bring the success of job-hunting, while none of online social capitals based on relationships via the Internet have significant effect.