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Author: MacLean, Alair
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Li, Xiao MacLean, Alair |
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Migration Across Metro-Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages Rural Sociology published online (14 July 2023). Also: https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12508 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Rural Sociological Society Keyword(s): Higher Education; Metro; Metro areas; Migration; Modeling, Mixed Effects; Modeling, Multilevel; Nonmetro; Nonmetro Areas; Rural Areas; Rural/Urban Differences; Rural/Urban Migration; Social Capital; Wage Models; Wage Theory; Wages; Younger Adult Worker Study Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous scholars have demonstrated that nonmetro residents who move to metro areas earn higher wages. It remains an open question whether this metro wage advantage persists in the contemporary era, and how migrating influences young adults from metro areas. Migrants may earn higher wages due to higher education. Alternatively, they may earn lower wages because they lack social capital. They may experience different associations of migration and wages when growing up in nonmetro versus metro areas due to different family backgrounds, education, and community contexts. This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 97 and multilevel/mixed-effects models to test these competing predictions. The findings show that young adults earned higher wages if they worked in metro rather than in nonmetro areas, regardless of migration, confirming a metro wage advantage. People who left nonmetro areas earned higher wages than if they stayed, consistent with a "rural brain drain." In addition, people earned similar wages if they stayed in, returned, and moved from metro to nonmetro areas, even though migrants and returnees had higher average education. The non-significant wage differences may be due to the less diverse wage structure in nonmetro labor markets and in-migrants' lack of social capital. |
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Li, Xiao and Alair MacLean. "Migration Across Metro-Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages." Rural Sociology published online (14 July 2023).
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MacLean, Alair |
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Skills Mismatch? Military Service, Combat Occupations, and Civilian Earnings Sociological Perspectives 60,2 (April 2017): 229-250. Also: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0731121416632011 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Pacific Sociological Association Keyword(s): Earnings; Military Service; Occupations; Veterans Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research has evaluated the impact of military service on socioeconomic outcomes, but little research has assessed the association between such outcomes and military occupations. The following article examines this relationship by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979. It evaluates whether military occupations produce associations that are consistent with hypotheses based on theories of skills mismatch, selection, or turning points. Contrary to expectations, veterans of combat occupations did not have different earnings from those of other occupations, which suggests that any apparent effects of combat exposure reflect neither skills mismatch nor selection into these roles. Yet veterans earned less than nonveterans at the same years of combined military and civilian experience, regardless of occupation. These findings indicate that employers did not value time in the military as much as time in the civilian labor market. |
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MacLean, Alair. "Skills Mismatch? Military Service, Combat Occupations, and Civilian Earnings." Sociological Perspectives 60,2 (April 2017): 229-250.
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MacLean, Alair Parsons, Nicholas L. |
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Unequal Risk: Combat Occupations in the Volunteer Military Sociological Perspectives 53,3 (Fall 2010): 347-372. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sop.2010.53.3.347 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of California Press Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Family Background and Culture; Military Enlistment; Military Service; Occupations; Occupations, Male This study evaluates the characteristics of the men who served in the volunteer military in combat occupations. It examines whether these characteristics stem from supply-side or demand-side decisions, or reflect class bias. The findings suggest that, on the supply side, men who had greater academic abilities were more likely to go to college, thereby avoiding military service and the possibility of serving in a combat occupation. On the demand side, the armed forces were more likely to exclude men with lower academic abilities but were more likely to assign such men in the military to combat occupations. Net of the impacts of these supply-side and demand-side decisions, men who served in combat occupations still differed from those who did not in terms of their family background. The impact of family background was stronger on entering the military than on being assigned to combat occupations once in the military. |
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Bibliography Citation
MacLean, Alair and Nicholas L. Parsons. "Unequal Risk: Combat Occupations in the Volunteer Military." Sociological Perspectives 53,3 (Fall 2010): 347-372.
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