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Title: Regional Convergence in Low-Wage Work and Earnings, 1970-2000

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Southern and non-Southern labor markets entered theperiod of economic restructuring from different starting points. Industrial and occupational differences across regions were eroded by the growth of the service industry in all regions, the decline in personal services withinthe South, and the decline of unions and manufacturing jobs outside of the South. This analysis underscores that indicators of precarity such as unionization and part-time jobs are really at the core of understanding regional low-wage earnings convergence. Furthermore, the authors find that an interaction between the regional structure of occupational opportunities and the racial and gender makeup of workers in jobs, particularly black women, plays an important role in producing the sharp low-wage earningsgrowth observed in the South in the 1970s and 1980s.

Url: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/sop.2011.54.4.569

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Authors: Hanley, Caroline; Branch, Enobong Hannah

Periodical (Full): Sociological Perspectives

Issue: 4

Volume: 54

Pages: 569-592

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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