Shin Watanabe is a professor of sociology at Sophia University in Japan, specializing in economic sociology. He has been conducting research on job-matching process in Japan and the US, as well as studying the process of career formation among female leaders in Japanese business.
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This research project proposes to study the process of job changing in the United States. The major objective is to undertake cross-national comparisons of the process of job changing in Japan and the United States to examine the relative impact of cultural and structural differences on job-matching process in the two nations. This study will replicate and extend the Japan study of job-changing process to empirically test three sets of hypotheses: those developed from the cultural and the structural perspectives, and those from Granovetter's study. This study will specifically focus on five aspects; (1) job-finding methods, (2) contact networks, (3) job-changing behavior,(4) job information, (5) and mobility outcomes.
