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Employment gains and wage declines: The erosion of black women’s relative wages since 1980
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 469–492.
Published: 01 August 2009
... fortunes of many American women. By the early 1980s, some scholars proclaimed near equity in pay between black and white women, particularly among young and highly skilled workers. More recent policy initiatives and labor market conditions have been arguably less progressive for black women’s employment...
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Employment and the Use of Birth Control by Sexually Active Single Hispanic, Black, and White Women
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 593–602.
Published: 01 November 1994
... Employment and the Use of Birth Control by Sexually Active Single Hispanic, Black, and White Women* Joan Marie Kraft Center for Research on Deviance and Behavioral Health Institute for Behavioral Research University of Georgia James E. Coverdill Department of Sociology University of Georgia Previous studies...
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Public Sector Employment Inequality in the United States and the Great Recession
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 391–411.
Published: 13 January 2017
... of the Great Recession. Using data from the Current Population Survey, I investigate changes in public sector employment between 2003 and 2013. My results point to a post-recession double disadvantage for black public sector workers: they are concentrated in a shrinking sector of the economy, and they are more...
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View articletitled, Public Sector <span class="search-highlight">Employment</span> Inequality in the United States and the Great Recession
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Does Hypersegregation Matter for Black-White Socioeconomic Disparities?
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 11 November 2019
... the American Community Survey from 2012 to 2016 to assess trajectories for black-white disparities in educational attainment, employment, and neighborhood poverty between metropolitan areas with hypersegregation and black-white segregation, as measured by the dissimilarity index. Using a time-varying measure...
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Are black workers missing the connection? The effect of spatial distance and employee referrals on interfirm racial segregation
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 507–528.
Published: 01 August 2002
... that are less than 10% black. Among all firms, the results suggest that employee referrals are just as important as the geographic location of the firm in generating employment segregation: both increase the predicted level of interfirm racial segregation among blue-collar workers in the cities studied by about...
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A technique for measuring the effect of economic base on opportunity for blacks
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 325–329.
Published: 01 May 1975
... Estate Economic Base Location Quotient Employment Pattern Black Employment References Cortese, Charles F. 1974. The Impact of Black Mobility: Selective Migration and Community Change. Final Report to the National Science Foundation, Department of Sociology, University of Denver. Duncan...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1301–1325.
Published: 01 August 2021
...-effects models that estimate labor market outcomes using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979–2014. We estimate models for Black and White women and find that the relationship between motherhood and employment is significantly more negative among White women who plan...
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View articletitled, Does the Impact of Motherhood on Women's <span class="search-highlight">Employment</span> and Wages Differ for Women Who Plan Their Transition Into Motherhood?
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Metropolitan Structure and Neighborhood Attainment: Exploring Intermetropolitan Variation in Racial Residential Segregation
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1263–1292.
Published: 24 August 2011
... populations, and blacks have more white neighbors in metropolitan areas with high government employment. Whites have more black neighbors in metropolitan areas with high levels of government employment and ample new housing; whites have fewer black neighbors in metropolitan areas with a high level...
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A comparison between Northern and Southern blacks residing in the North
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Demography (1976) 13 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 May 1976
...Stanley Lieberson; Christy A. Wilkinson Abstract Differences between Southern and non-Southern blacks living in the North and West are considered for a wide variety of attributes such as employment, occupation, income, marital stability, and offspring’s performance in school. Migrant blacks have...
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Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2295–2319.
Published: 01 December 2022
... consequential than differential attainment of education, employment, and family formation benchmarks in shaping racial differences in young adult poverty. Whereas benchmark attainment reduces an individual's likelihood of poverty, racial differences in benchmark attainment do not meaningfully explain Black...
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Labor Force Participation Over the Life Course: The Long-Term Effects of Employment Trajectories on Wages and the Gendered Payoff to Employment
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 33–60.
Published: 29 January 2020
... identify six employment trajectories for individuals from ages 22 to 50. We find that women across racial/ethnic groups and Black men are more likely than White and Hispanic men to have nonsteady employment trajectories and lower levels of employment throughout their lives, and individuals who have...
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View articletitled, Labor Force Participation Over the Life Course: The Long-Term Effects of <span class="search-highlight">Employment</span> Trajectories on Wages and the Gendered Payoff to <span class="search-highlight">Employment</span>
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 827–855.
Published: 01 June 2022
... employment. Reemployment in May was broadly proportional to the employment drop that occurred through April, except for Black individuals, who experienced a smaller rebound. Compared to the 2001 recession and the Great Recession, employment losses in the early COVID-19 recession were smaller for groups...
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View articletitled, Determinants of Disparities in Early COVID-19 Job Losses
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Including Group Quarters Residents With Household Residents Can Change What We Know About Working-Age People With Disabilities
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 267–289.
Published: 23 November 2011
... substantially lowers employment rate estimates for young males, blacks, and American Indians. 17 10 2011 23 11 2011 © Population Association of America 2011 2011 People with disabilities Group quarters Disability prevalence Employment A large proportion of working-age people...
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Neighborhood Context and the Transition to Sexual Activity among Young Black Women
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 603–614.
Published: 01 November 1994
... fertility. In this study I examine the effects of neighborhood characteristics on the risk of nonmarital first intercourse and on contraceptive use among black female adolescents. The results suggest that neighborhood socioeconomic status, female employment and marital dissolution rates, and peers...
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Women’s Short-Term Employment Trajectories Following Birth: Patterns, Determinants, and Variations by Race/Ethnicity and Nativity
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 93–118.
Published: 04 January 2017
... by economic hardship and job characteristics. Moreover, mothers’ employment patterns differ by race/ethnicity and nativity. Nonwhite women (blacks, Hispanics, and Asians) who were employed before childbirth exhibited greater labor market continuation than white women. For immigrant women, those with a shorter...
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The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 889–914.
Published: 03 June 2011
... for employment for educated black women. Blacks, particularly black males, still lag far behind whites in their rates of college completion, but the striking educational gains of white women have caused the racial patterns of gender differences in college completion rates to grow more similar over time. While...
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View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons
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Black-White Disparities in Life Expectancy: How Much Can the Standard SES Variables Explain?
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 553–574.
Published: 28 January 2012
... estimation samples in which the distribution of income, education, employment and occupation, marital status, and other theoretically relevant variables among blacks is made to match the distribution of these variables among whites. For males, 80% of the black-white gap in life expectancy at age 1 can...
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Labor force participation of working mothers and family formation: Some further evidence
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 273–284.
Published: 01 August 1977
... by variations in work experience. The results are conditional in that the relationships hold more for whites than for blacks or Indians. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1977 1977 Labor Force Participation Family Formation Role Conflict Female Employment Fertility Behavior...
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The rise of divorce and separation in the United States, 1880–1990
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 455–466.
Published: 01 November 1997
... market-labor participation for such women has increased almost fortyfold for whites and sixfold for blacks since 1880. Male participation has declined about 5% among whites and 17% among blacks, partly because of early retirement but mainly because of declining employment at younger ages. 7. There has...
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The determinants of marital fertility in the united states, 1968–1970: Inferences from a dynamic model
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Demography (1978) 15 (2): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 1978
... of fertility and female employment is introduced. Contrary to the static perspective’s implication of constant effects, substantial parity differences in the estimates of parameters for both equations are reported, as are several differences between blacks and whites. On the basis of this evidence, I conclude...
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