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Title: Job Quality and Race and Gender Equity: Understanding the Link between Job Quality and Occupational Crowding

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Publication Year: 2023

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Abstract: Job quality is important for worker well-being (Congdon et al. 2020). However, all occupations are not equal in quality, and quality employment is distributed unevenly by race and gender. This study uses occupational crowding methodology to better understand how this occurs and who is impacted. We conducted a review of major definitions of job quality across multiple fields to develop an organizing framework of the main elements of job quality. The main categories we identified were pay, hours, scheduling, benefits, job security, working conditions, on-the-job training, advancement, and worker voice. We then identified these job quality indicators in 108 occupations and developed a combined job-quality score. The average job-quality score was 5.8 out of a total possible score of 11 across the occupations,the most frequent total scores were 7 or 8, and few occupations were very below average.

Url: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/Job-quality-and-race-and-gender-equity.pdf

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Authors: Biu, Ofronama; Katz, Batia; AduoGyamfi, Afia; Scott, Molly

Publisher: Urban Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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