Upgraded to Bad Jobs
Low-Wage Black Women's Relative Status since 1970
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18972425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enobong Hannah Branch (University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author), Caroline Hanley (0000-0002-1125-6269, William & Mary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 366-395 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tsq.12053 |
| OpenAlex | W1508534461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 40 |
Labor market changes complicate the analysis of black women's status relative to white women because education, occupational attainment, and race–gender are now less predictive of earnings. Low-wage black women's relative status has improved somewhat from 1970 to 2000, contrary to the well-documented decrease in relative status reported for all black women wage earners since 1980, but their dramatic occupational upgrading was not responsible for the trend. White-collar occupational positions formerly responsible for white women's relative earnings advantage no longer deliver that reward, as restructuring has produced a proliferation of bad jobs across occupational groups. This study argues that increasing exposure to precarious work is crucial to understanding changes in low-wage black women's relative economic status since 1970
Black women · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Labour economics · Occupational prestige · Occupational segregation · Population · Race (biology) · Restructuring · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Wage · White (mutation) · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |