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Title: Occupational Segregation and Earnings: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Youth Labor Market
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Seitz, Patricia Ann |
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Occupational Segregation and Earnings: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Youth Labor Market Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Earnings; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Ethnic Studies; Industrial Relations; Labor Market Demographics; Labor Market Studies, Geographic; Occupational Segregation; Racial Studies; Skills; Wage Effects The link between occupational segregation and wages is investigated for a cohort of youth in the 1980s. The analysis contrasts individual-level and structural-level theories of occupational segregation and earnings inequality in an examination of occupational gender and race/ethnic segregation, occupational labor market location and wage processes for youth at two points in the school-to-work transition period. Data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience, Youth Cohort, for six groups of youth workers: Mexican-American women and men, African-American women and men, and anglo women and men. The study finds that occupational segregation by sex and by race/ethnicity is as extensive in the youth labor market as in the adult labor market. As workers move out of the youth labor market sex segregation decreases slightly and race/ethnic segregation increases. Occupational segregation measures are combined with occupational skill, supply/demand, and social organization characteristics to develop a classification scheme that categorizes occupations into ten distinctive occupational labor markets. Gender has the largest effect on workers' occupational labor market location in the youth labor market period; race/ethnic effects emerge as workers progress into the adult labor market. Occupational labor market location exhibits large wage effects once workers enter the adult labor market. Moreover, these effects vary by gender, and to a lesser extent by race/ethnicity, such that occupational labor market location is more important to understanding the wage process for women than for men. Wage effects for occupational gender and race/ethnic composition are discovered for both the youth and adult labor market periods, but these effects diminish when occupational skills, supply/demand and social organization dimensions are heldconstant. The analyses suggest that it is problematic to analyze the effects associated with employment in "women's jobs" without taking into account the accompanying occupational characteristics that influence wages. |
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Seitz, Patricia Ann. Occupational Segregation and Earnings: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Youth Labor Market. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995. |