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Title: Failing Workers, Failing Women: Job Quality Deterioration, Educational Expansion, and Gender Stratification in the Labor Market, 1985-2017
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Dyer, Shauna |
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Failing Workers, Failing Women: Job Quality Deterioration, Educational Expansion, and Gender Stratification in the Labor Market, 1985-2017 Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Benefits; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Job Characteristics; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Gender scholars have long argued that women require employer-provided benefits such as parental leave and flexibility to remain employed and manage their disproportionate care obligations relative to men. Separately, job quality scholars have documented the decline in employer-provided health insurance, retirement plans and standard schedules. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 and a multidimensional job quality scale that expands upon traditional measures to include benefits especially important for women, I find that job quality is substantively associated with remaining employed with stronger associations for women. Job quality declined across all education categories between the two cohorts with college-educated, mid/high wage workers experiencing the smallest declines. However, a closer examination reveals that despite women's greater educational increases relative to men, they were less protected from job quality decline than expected, because they are underrepresented at the top and overrepresented at the bottom of the wage distribution regardless of attainment. |
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Dyer, Shauna. "Failing Workers, Failing Women: Job Quality Deterioration, Educational Expansion, and Gender Stratification in the Labor Market, 1985-2017." Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022. |