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Title: The Impact of The Great Recession on the Occupational Segregation of Black Men in the U.S.

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Existing research on occupational segregation measures the degree of under- and overrepresentation of a group in an occupation given that group’s expected level of representation; the occupational crowding hypothesis posits that the expected level of representation is based on the share of the group with the educational attainment level possessed by the majority of the occupation’s workers (Bergmann 1971). Black men are overrepresented in low-wage occupations, and underrepresented in high-wage occupations, even after controlling for education (Bergmann 1971; Gibson, Darity, and Myers 1998; Hamilton, Austin and Darity 2011). The occupational crowding hypothesis indicates that the crowding of black workers into low-wage occupations is due to: (1) employers’ desire not to associate with blacks; (2) employers’ perception that black workers are less productive; (3) employers’ fear of reprisal from white customers or employees. Since occupational crowding research typically ignores the effect of business cycles on occupational sorting, this research examines whether the Great Recession exacerbated the occupational crowding of black men in the U.S

Url: https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2016/retrieve.php?pdfid=1379

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Authors: Holder, Michelle

Publisher: City University of New York

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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