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Western, Bruce; Kleykamp, Meredith; Rosenfeld, Jake – Social Forces, 2006
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men's prison admission rates in the United States from 1983 to 2001. Research on the effects of the labor market on incarceration usually examines national-or state-level data, but our analysis studies prison admission among black and white men in specific age-education groups. We find a…
Descriptors: Wages, Employment, Males, Correctional Institutions
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Jones, Jo Ann; Rosenfeld, Rachel A. – Social Forces, 1989
Examines effects of male/female labor supply characteristics and female demand factors on women's access to the labor market, using 1950-80 census data. Reports significant effects of percent of women with high school diplomas and family responsibilities, male unemployment, male/female ratio, southern location, and increase in manufacturing…
Descriptors: Females, Labor Market, Labor Supply, Males
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Gerber, Theodore P.; Mayorova, Olga – Social Forces, 2006
We examine how the shift from state socialism affects gender inequality in the labor market using multivariate models of employment exit, employment entry, job mobility and new job quality for 3,580 Russian adults from 1991 through 1997. Gender differences changed in a complex fashion. Relative to men, women gained greater access to employment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Mobility, Labor Market, Human Capital
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McDonald, Steve; Elder, Glen H., Jr. – Social Forces, 2006
Non-searchers--people who get their jobs without engaging in a job search--are often excluded from investigations of the role of personal relationships in job finding processes. This practice fails to capture the scope of informal job matching activity and underestimates the effectiveness of social capital. Moreover, studies typically obtain…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Employment, Job Search Methods, Gender Differences
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Kalleberg, Arne L.; Stark, David – Social Forces, 1993
Surveys of Hungarian and U.S. workers examined attitudes toward promotions, flexibility of hours, autonomy at work, economic rewards, and job security in capitalist versus socialist context. Important concerns for Hungarians were flexibility to pursue second jobs and economic incentives, whereas Americans were concerned with promotion…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Educational Attainment, Employment Practices, Incentives
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Kogan, Irena – Social Forces, 2006
The questions asked in the paper are whether and to what extent the employment situation among recent third-country immigrants differs across European Union countries and how it is related to these countries' labor market characteristics. The European Labor Force Survey data for the 1990s are used to disentangle the roles that the individual…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Labor Force
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Carbonaro, William – Social Forces, 2006
This study examines cross-national differences in returns to literacy skills and explores possible explanations for such differences. Data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) are analyzed using multilevel models. Returns to literacy skills are higher in liberal market economies (LMEs) than in social market economies (SMEs).…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Adult Literacy, Occupational Surveys, Data Analysis
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Lorence, Jon – Social Forces, 1991
Panel analyses of 1970 and 1980 census data from the 124 largest metropolitan areas support the "deindustrialization thesis" in that service sector growth is economically detrimental to both sexes. However, men's earnings deteriorate at a faster rate than women's earnings, reducing the gender earnings gap. Contains 60 references.…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Labor Market, Metropolitan Areas
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Villemez, Wayne J. – Social Forces, 1977
Shows that the gains which result from the economic subordination of females is a side effect of a complex labor market phenomena. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Females, Income, Labor Market
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Lee, Cheol-Sung – Social Forces, 2005
This article, using unbalanced panel data on 16 affluent OECD countries, tests the effects of diverse aspects of globalization and deindustrialization on unionization trends. In contrast to the recent studies focusing on the conditional role of labor market institutions, this study underlines the role of two structural factors in transforming…
Descriptors: Globalization, Foreign Countries, Occupational Mobility, Unions
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Wu, Xiaogang – Social Forces, 2006
This paper examines the patterns of entry into self-employment in urban and rural China and across different reform stages, focusing on how communist cadres have responded to new market opportunities. Analysis of data from a national representative survey shows that both education and cadre status deter people from entry into self-employment in…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Self Employment, Foreign Countries, Rural Urban Differences
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Fountain, Christine – Social Forces, 2005
Internet job searching offers an empirical setting in which to explore the trade-off between quality and quantity of information. As both firms and workers turn to the internet for unprecedented amounts of labor market information, it is unclear whether this makes the matching process more efficient. Using longitudinal data on two samples of…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Job Search Methods, Labor Market, Search Strategies
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Hodge, Robert W. – Social Forces, 1973
Develops a theoretical model of the sources of group differentials in employment and examines the black-white unemployment differentials in the light of this scheme. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Cross Sectional Studies, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
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Grant, Don Sherman, II; Parcel, Toby L. – Social Forces, 1990
A resource approach to economic segmentation more adequately explains racial income inequality in metropolitan areas, particularly for males, than do traditional models. The resource approach emphasizes job and production factors, such as firm size and unionization, as well as social organizational factors in local labor markets. Contains 48…
Descriptors: Blacks, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Income
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Fuller, Bruce; And Others – Social Forces, 1990
Examines how the Mexican government's penetration into 299 rural and urban counties, 1900-40, was related to growth in trade and service jobs. Emphasizes the government's support for written literacy and mass schooling as subtle strategies for incorporating peasants into urban institutions. Contains 39 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Government Role
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