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Author: Portier, Camille
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Maralani, Vida Portier, Camille |
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Does a College Degree Offset the Wage Penalties Associated with Gender-Essentialized Job Skills? Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Job Skills; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Wage Penalty/Career Penalty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Skills pay off in the labor market and rising returns to educational attainment suggest growing demand by employers for workers with higher skills. However, skills are hierarchically organized by other attributes as well--for example, jobs skills can be gender essentialized. Work that involves caring for others requires feminine-essentialized skills whereas work that requires engineering skills is essentialized as masculine. Our study investigates the intersection of these dimensions by examining whether a college degree can offset the wage penalties associated with gender-essentialized jobs skills across a continuum from feminine to masculine. The analyses use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 1997 (NLSY-97) combined with detailed information from the O*NET database of occupational characteristics and growth curve models. Our results show that a college degree can close and even reverse gender wage gaps for job skills that are essentialized feminine but not those essentialized as masculine. |
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Bibliography Citation
Maralani, Vida and Camille Portier. "Does a College Degree Offset the Wage Penalties Associated with Gender-Essentialized Job Skills?" Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022. |
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Portier, Camille |
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Occupational Characteristics and Life Course Health: Evidence From NLSY97 Presented: Online, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2021 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Control; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Characteristics; Job Hazards; Life Course; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Supervisor Characteristics Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this study, I examine the associations between health and occupational characteristics in early adulthood, a time in life when individuals transition to spending more hours at work each day. Specifically, I examine the link between self-reported health and physical demands, degree of exposure to adverse environmental conditions, degree of influence, someone's job control and level of supportive managerial practice in one's job from age 18 to age 37. Building both from life course and cumulative disadvantage theory, I develop hypotheses about how differential exposure to occupational characteristics lead to a differentiation in health trajectories among cohort members, differentially by gender and age. Combining data from NLSY97 with the O*NET, I find that occupational characteristics are related to health trajectories in the early work life. This study also provides new evidence on how occupational characteristics play out in gendered contexts, and shed light on patterns of selection into occupations. |
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Bibliography Citation
Portier, Camille. "Occupational Characteristics and Life Course Health: Evidence From NLSY97." Presented: Online, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2021. |