TY - JOUR
T1 - Occupational mobility of American women
T2 - Compositional and structural changes, 1980-2007
AU - Mandel, Hadas
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Israel Foundations Trustees .
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - In this paper, I document trends in women's occupational mobility between 1980 and 2007 in the U.S labor market, and link these trends to two distinct sources: compositional and structural changes. In this context, compositional changes refers to the over time trends in the distributions of men and women in the occupational wage hierarchy, while structural changes are the trends in the relative standing of occupations in the wage hierarchy over time. The findings provide empirical evidence for both processes, indicating that the impressive upward occupational mobility of American women is a consequence not only of their increased access to highly paid occupations, but also of the higher wage increments in their typical occupational profiles relative to men's-a structural change not often acknowledged by sociologists.
AB - In this paper, I document trends in women's occupational mobility between 1980 and 2007 in the U.S labor market, and link these trends to two distinct sources: compositional and structural changes. In this context, compositional changes refers to the over time trends in the distributions of men and women in the occupational wage hierarchy, while structural changes are the trends in the relative standing of occupations in the wage hierarchy over time. The findings provide empirical evidence for both processes, indicating that the impressive upward occupational mobility of American women is a consequence not only of their increased access to highly paid occupations, but also of the higher wage increments in their typical occupational profiles relative to men's-a structural change not often acknowledged by sociologists.
KW - Compositional changes
KW - Gender inequality
KW - Occupational mobility
KW - Structural changes
KW - Wage structure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857379979&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.rssm.2011.07.003
DO - 10.1016/j.rssm.2011.07.003
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AN - SCOPUS:84857379979
SN - 0276-5624
VL - 30
SP - 5
EP - 16
JO - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
JF - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
IS - 1
ER -
