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Title: Intra-industry Occupational Segregation: Measuring the Role of Race & Ethnicity in Occupational Hierarchies
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: This dissertation demonstrates the importance of industry of employment for patterns of occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the United States using multiple analytical methods. Two quantitative approaches are employed: the descriptive approach of segregation indexes using the additive decomposability property of the entropy-based indexes, and the statistical approach of econometric modeling using multilevel models. These methods are shown to have advantages for evaluating and contextualizing segregation at multiple scales simultaneously which advance the state of knowledge regarding intra-industry occupational segregation and its consequences for overall occupational segregation in the labor market. The application of these methods contributes to both the descriptive and the econometric literature and provides new evidence for variations in the severity of occupational segregation across industries and the relationship between occupational segregation and earnings inequality. The findings include new measures of intra-industry occupational segregation and the share of this segregation that is unexplained by worker and job attributes, a ranking of industries by the extent of segregation experienced by race and ethnicity groups, substantiation of the stratified dimensions of occupational segregation including racial and ethnic class differences based on earnings or occupational prestige, and an examination of the role of industry-specific factors that contribute to the occurrence of occupational segregation in the retail industry.
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Authors: Ruetschlin, Catherine, C
Institution: The New School
Department: Economics
Advisor: William Milberg
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity
Countries: United States