Sarah Pearlman
Biographic Data
| ID | 89147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Pearlman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearlman |
| SIGNATURE | PEARLMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2498-6164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impact of Secure Communities on the labor market outcomes of immigrant women
The United States deported nearly 400,000 unauthorized immigrants under the Secure Communities (SC) interior immigration enforcement program between 2008 and 2014. This paper uses variation in the intensity of deportations across immigrants’ country of origin and city of residence to assess the labor market consequences of SC on foreign‐born women. We find no effect on the total number of employed immigrant women, but both annual wages and the nu…
Job Quality and Labour Market Transitions
We document job characteristics for young, male, urban workers in Mexico, a country with high informal employment and increasing education levels. The informal sector is composed of two distinct parts: salaried informal employment and self-employment. On almost every measure, including wages, informal salaried jobs are of lower quality than formal salaried or self-employed ones. We characterize short-term job type transitions among these workers …
Gender Imbalances and Labor Market Outcomes
We study the consequences of international migration on labor market outcomes in a developing country. Specifically, we look at the case of Mexico, where large-scale international migration has led to significant declines in the male/female ratio. We explore whether this results in Mexican women entering high-skilled and better paying jobs over time. This question is relevant since there has been an increase in women's education and labor force p…
Violence and migration
The effect of violence on people's residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys, we estimate the impact of violence on migration at the municipal and state levels. To account for the endogeneity of violence, we use kilometers of federa…
Officials Versus Thieves
Corruption and crime are factors that regularly affect firms, yet few papers compare the two impacts. This is largely due to a lack of data, something I overcome using recent surveys of microenterprises in Mexico. After instrumenting for individual firm-level incidence, I find that thieves are much more harmful to microenterprises than officials. The incidence of robbery and extortion is associated with declines in income and employees, while the…
Crime and Microenterprise Growth
Too Vulnerable for Microfinance? Risk and Vulnerability as Determinants of Microfinance Selection in Lima
Despite dramatic microfinance growth, formal credit use by poor households remains low. There is increasing evidence of muted demand, suggesting a link between the risk of projects financed by credit and households' risk management. This article analyses these links using panel data on urban microentrepreneurs in Lima, based on a model in which the risk of projects and the ability to manage risk determine if a household seeks microfinance. Contro…
From Feminist Bookstore to Lesbian Cyberspace
Terms of Connection
This article is based on a qualitative study of 18 mothers who learned that their daughters identified as transgender. The interviews reveal a process of reconciliation that included themes of initial devastation, daughter-loss, and recollections of early gender-variant behaviors. Turning points such as adjustment to a male presentation and a perceptual-cognitive shift enabled mothers to view their daughters as male and begin to respond to them a…
When Mothers Learn a Daughter Is a Lesbian
This manuscript is based on in-depth interviews of 3 groups of mothers who learned that their daughters were lesbian. The first group consisted of 10 mothers interviewed in 1990. A second group of 16 mothers were interviewed in 2000-2001. The third group, also interviewed in 2000-2001, consisted of 14 mothers whose daughters initially disclosed as lesbians, but later identified as transgender. Conducted 10 to 11 years apart, these studies offer a…
Loving Across Race and Class Divides
Similar to their heterosexual counterparts, lesbians are increasingly meeting and falling in love with women very different than themselves -- differences which include race and class and thus, cultural background. Yet, there are distinct challenges which confront the interracial lesbian couple such as homophobia, racism, and limited social support from family and friends as illustrated through the narratives of two composite couples. A race, cla…
Lesbian Clients/Lesbian Therapist
There are multiple decisions and necessary conversations that are a crucial part of psychodynamic clinical practice between lesbian clients and lesbian therapists. These necessary conversations, which can make or break effective psychotherapy, include approach and timing of therapist disclosure of sexual orientation; boundary concerns; feelings which arise as the result of contact between therapist and client in lesbian social space; transference…
Late Mid-Life Astonishment
This paper describes and explores a developmental transition called "late mid-life astonishment." This transition of passage most typically begins between the ages of 50 and 60, is marked by a sudden awareness of the acceleration and stigmatization of aging, and characterized by feelings of amazement and despair at the multiple losses and changes brought about or occuring simultaneously with increase of age. This transition then is a developmenta…
Heterosexual Mothers/Lesbian Daughters
This article is based on an interview study of ten Caucasian mothers who, following disclosure of a daughter's lesbianism, ultimately engaged in some activity supportive of parental acceptance and/or the gay civil rights movement. Findings showed that similar to their lesbian daughters, these mothers had assimilated the behaviors and coping skills of an oppressed and stigmatized group, and thus shared similar experiences as part of their acceptan…
Distancing and Connectedness
No abstract available for this article
Violence and migration
The effect of violence on people's residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys, we estimate the impact of violence on migration at the municipal and state levels. To account for the endogeneity of violence, we use kilometers of federa…
Distancing and Connectedness
No abstract available for this article
Crime and Microenterprise Growth
When Mothers Learn a Daughter Is a Lesbian
This manuscript is based on in-depth interviews of 3 groups of mothers who learned that their daughters were lesbian. The first group consisted of 10 mothers interviewed in 1990. A second group of 16 mothers were interviewed in 2000-2001. The third group, also interviewed in 2000-2001, consisted of 14 mothers whose daughters initially disclosed as lesbians, but later identified as transgender. Conducted 10 to 11 years apart, these studies offer a…
Late Mid-Life Astonishment
This paper describes and explores a developmental transition called "late mid-life astonishment." This transition of passage most typically begins between the ages of 50 and 60, is marked by a sudden awareness of the acceleration and stigmatization of aging, and characterized by feelings of amazement and despair at the multiple losses and changes brought about or occuring simultaneously with increase of age. This transition then is a developmenta…
The impact of Secure Communities on the labor market outcomes of immigrant women
The United States deported nearly 400,000 unauthorized immigrants under the Secure Communities (SC) interior immigration enforcement program between 2008 and 2014. This paper uses variation in the intensity of deportations across immigrants’ country of origin and city of residence to assess the labor market consequences of SC on foreign‐born women. We find no effect on the total number of employed immigrant women, but both annual wages and the nu…
Lesbian Clients/Lesbian Therapist
There are multiple decisions and necessary conversations that are a crucial part of psychodynamic clinical practice between lesbian clients and lesbian therapists. These necessary conversations, which can make or break effective psychotherapy, include approach and timing of therapist disclosure of sexual orientation; boundary concerns; feelings which arise as the result of contact between therapist and client in lesbian social space; transference…
Heterosexual Mothers/Lesbian Daughters
This article is based on an interview study of ten Caucasian mothers who, following disclosure of a daughter's lesbianism, ultimately engaged in some activity supportive of parental acceptance and/or the gay civil rights movement. Findings showed that similar to their lesbian daughters, these mothers had assimilated the behaviors and coping skills of an oppressed and stigmatized group, and thus shared similar experiences as part of their acceptan…
Distancing and Connectedness
No abstract available for this article
Heterosexual Mothers/Lesbian Daughters
This article is based on an interview study of ten Caucasian mothers who, following disclosure of a daughter's lesbianism, ultimately engaged in some activity supportive of parental acceptance and/or the gay civil rights movement. Findings showed that similar to their lesbian daughters, these mothers had assimilated the behaviors and coping skills of an oppressed and stigmatized group, and thus shared similar experiences as part of their acceptan…
Late Mid-Life Astonishment
This paper describes and explores a developmental transition called "late mid-life astonishment." This transition of passage most typically begins between the ages of 50 and 60, is marked by a sudden awareness of the acceleration and stigmatization of aging, and characterized by feelings of amazement and despair at the multiple losses and changes brought about or occuring simultaneously with increase of age. This transition then is a developmenta…
Loving Across Race and Class Divides
Similar to their heterosexual counterparts, lesbians are increasingly meeting and falling in love with women very different than themselves -- differences which include race and class and thus, cultural background. Yet, there are distinct challenges which confront the interracial lesbian couple such as homophobia, racism, and limited social support from family and friends as illustrated through the narratives of two composite couples. A race, cla…
Lesbian Clients/Lesbian Therapist
There are multiple decisions and necessary conversations that are a crucial part of psychodynamic clinical practice between lesbian clients and lesbian therapists. These necessary conversations, which can make or break effective psychotherapy, include approach and timing of therapist disclosure of sexual orientation; boundary concerns; feelings which arise as the result of contact between therapist and client in lesbian social space; transference…
When Mothers Learn a Daughter Is a Lesbian
This manuscript is based on in-depth interviews of 3 groups of mothers who learned that their daughters were lesbian. The first group consisted of 10 mothers interviewed in 1990. A second group of 16 mothers were interviewed in 2000-2001. The third group, also interviewed in 2000-2001, consisted of 14 mothers whose daughters initially disclosed as lesbians, but later identified as transgender. Conducted 10 to 11 years apart, these studies offer a…
Terms of Connection
This article is based on a qualitative study of 18 mothers who learned that their daughters identified as transgender. The interviews reveal a process of reconciliation that included themes of initial devastation, daughter-loss, and recollections of early gender-variant behaviors. Turning points such as adjustment to a male presentation and a perceptual-cognitive shift enabled mothers to view their daughters as male and begin to respond to them a…
From Feminist Bookstore to Lesbian Cyberspace
Too Vulnerable for Microfinance? Risk and Vulnerability as Determinants of Microfinance Selection in Lima
Despite dramatic microfinance growth, formal credit use by poor households remains low. There is increasing evidence of muted demand, suggesting a link between the risk of projects financed by credit and households' risk management. This article analyses these links using panel data on urban microentrepreneurs in Lima, based on a model in which the risk of projects and the ability to manage risk determine if a household seeks microfinance. Contro…
Crime and Microenterprise Growth
Officials Versus Thieves
Corruption and crime are factors that regularly affect firms, yet few papers compare the two impacts. This is largely due to a lack of data, something I overcome using recent surveys of microenterprises in Mexico. After instrumenting for individual firm-level incidence, I find that thieves are much more harmful to microenterprises than officials. The incidence of robbery and extortion is associated with declines in income and employees, while the…
Violence and migration
The effect of violence on people's residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict. We examine the case of the drug war in Mexico, which dramatically increased the number of homicides since late 2006. Using data from the Mexican Census and labor force surveys, we estimate the impact of violence on migration at the municipal and state levels. To account for the endogeneity of violence, we use kilometers of federa…
Gender Imbalances and Labor Market Outcomes
We study the consequences of international migration on labor market outcomes in a developing country. Specifically, we look at the case of Mexico, where large-scale international migration has led to significant declines in the male/female ratio. We explore whether this results in Mexican women entering high-skilled and better paying jobs over time. This question is relevant since there has been an increase in women's education and labor force p…
Job Quality and Labour Market Transitions
We document job characteristics for young, male, urban workers in Mexico, a country with high informal employment and increasing education levels. The informal sector is composed of two distinct parts: salaried informal employment and self-employment. On almost every measure, including wages, informal salaried jobs are of lower quality than formal salaried or self-employed ones. We characterize short-term job type transitions among these workers …
The impact of Secure Communities on the labor market outcomes of immigrant women
The United States deported nearly 400,000 unauthorized immigrants under the Secure Communities (SC) interior immigration enforcement program between 2008 and 2014. This paper uses variation in the intensity of deportations across immigrants’ country of origin and city of residence to assess the labor market consequences of SC on foreign‐born women. We find no effect on the total number of employed immigrant women, but both annual wages and the nu…
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