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Title: Intersections on the Class Escalator: Gender, Race, and Occupational Segregation in Paid Care Work
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Hodges, Melissa J. |
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Intersections on the Class Escalator: Gender, Race, and Occupational Segregation in Paid Care Work Sociological Forum 35,1 (March 2020): 24-49. Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/socf.12566 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Discrimination; Gender Differences; Occupational Choice; Occupational Segregation; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As U.S. manufacturing and production industries have declined, the growth of the care sector has increasingly become an important source of jobs for workers without a college degree. Often requiring some form of postsecondary credentialing, many care occupations can provide better wages, job stability, and possible upward mobility for less educated workers. However, employment patterns in paid care work are both gendered and racialized: women and workers of color are overrepresented in care occupations with fewer entry barriers, benefits, and lower pay. Although these patterns are well documented, the mechanisms producing them are less well understood. Using event history analysis and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), this study evaluates the explanatory power of neoclassical economic, status attainment, and social closure theories of occupational segregation for black women's and men's greater hazard or "risk" of entering care occupations, relative to white workers. Net of individual and closure mechanisms, significant residual effects suggest labor market discrimination remains a primary explanation for the over‐representation of black workers in less credentialed care jobs with fewer benefits. |
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Hodges, Melissa J. "Intersections on the Class Escalator: Gender, Race, and Occupational Segregation in Paid Care Work." Sociological Forum 35,1 (March 2020): 24-49.
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