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Title: Job Mobility and Wage Trajectories for Men and Women in the United States
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Fuller, Sylvia |
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Job Mobility and Wage Trajectories for Men and Women in the United States American Sociological Review 73,1 (February 2008): 158-183. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472518 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Labor Supply; Mobility, Occupational; Modeling; Wage Equations; Wage Rates; Wages, Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Young American workers typically change employers many times in the course of establishing their careers. This article examines the consequences of this mobility for wage inequalities between and among men and women. Using multilevel modeling and data from the 1979 to 2002 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), I disentangle the various ways in which mobility shapes the trajectories of wage growth. Findings caution against accepting the adequacy of prevalent economic models of mobility--models that tend to isolate individual workers' moves from broader patterns of work history and that treat mobility as a decontextualized individual choice. Although workers who frequently switch employers generally end up earning less than their more-stable counterparts, the type, timing, and relative level of changes strongly affect the ultimate wage differential. Differences in the degree of men's and women's labor-force attachment and family circumstances are also influential. Workers who are less attached to the labor force benefit less from changing employers, and women who are married or have children also tend to experience less-favorable mobility-wage outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of American Sociological Review is the property of American Sociological Association and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright |
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Fuller, Sylvia. "Job Mobility and Wage Trajectories for Men and Women in the United States." American Sociological Review 73,1 (February 2008): 158-183.
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