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Title: Age Stratification at Work: Trends in Occupational Age Segregation in the United States, 1950-2000
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2006
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Abstract: This paper adjudicates between competing accounts of recent trends in the amount and patterning of occupational age segregation. These accounts rely on narratives about (1) the decline of age-graded mobility, (2) the rise of occupational volatility, and (3) the existence of dual labor markets, in particular increasingly bimodal age distributions in low-skill occupations. Using new log-multiplicative models and related methods, the findings show that overall age segregation declined between 1950 and 1990, which is consistent with the decline of age-graded mobility. Among women, though not among men, the findings show increasingly bimodal age distributions in particular low-skill occupations, which is consistent with a dual labor market. Starting in 1990, age segregation increased among men and may have increased among women, which is consistent with the occupational volatility narrative.
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Authors: MacLean, Alair
Periodical (Full): Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Issue: 3
Volume: 26
Pages: 299-310
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Aging and Retirement, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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