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Title: Revisiting Bergmann’s Occupational Crowding Model

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Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.1177/0486613418788406

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Abstract: In 1971, economist Barbara Bergmann developed the “occupational crowding model,” which posited that black men are “crowded into” low-wage occupations and “crowded out” of high-wage occupations due to employer discrimination. In quantitative analyses I have conducted for the years 2010 through 2011, the results have yielded a different picture from what Bergmann’s model predicts: although African American men are underrepresented in high-wage occupations, consistent with her model, this group does not appear to be overrepresented in low-wage occupational categories when the level of analysis is between major low-wage occupational categories instead of within categories. I attribute this to demographic changes in the US labor force, and conclude by suggesting that the model now requires further specification.

Url: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0486613418788406

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Authors: Holder, Michelle

Periodical (Full): Review of Radical Political Economics

Issue: 4

Volume: 50

Pages: 683-690

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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