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Internal Labor Markets and Occupational Sex Segregation: An Event History Analysis of Gender Differences in Job and Upward Wage Mobility Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 1990 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Mobility; Occupational Segregation; Occupations, Female; Occupations, Male; Wages; Work Histories This study investigates the effects of internal labor markets and occupational sex segregation on gender differences in the rates of job and upward wage mobility. Past research has identified two types of mobility barriers--one between internal and external labor markets and the other between male-typed and female-typed occupations--as key elements contributing to the persistence of gender gaps in job rewards. Past discussion has focused on the independent effects of these mobility barriers on job outcomes and failed to examine the ways in which they overlap and form boundaries that disadvantage women in the workplace. The author conceptualizes labor market boundaries based on the assumption that there is additional occupational segregation by gender within internal and external labor markets. Informed by the concepts of internal labor markets and occupational sex segregation, the author examines several hypotheses concerning gender and labor market differences in the rates of job and upward wage mobility. Using job history data and event history analytic techniques, the author specifies and estimates a series of models. The data are drawn from the NLSY 1979-85, a large survey of young men and women 14 to 28 years old. The results indicate that: (1) labor market arrangements and occupational sex segregation function as barriers that restrict mobility among different sets of positions in the labor market; and (2) gender differences in the labor market positions young women and men occupy explain some differences in job and upward wage mobility. However, the findings show that individuals who move between female-typed occupations within the internal labor market have higher rates of upward shifts in wages than those who change jobs between male-dominated occupations. |
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Kurahashi, Michiko. Internal Labor Markets and Occupational Sex Segregation: An Event History Analysis of Gender Differences in Job and Upward Wage Mobility. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 1990. |