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Levanon, Asaf; England, Paula; Allison, Paul – Social Forces, 2009
Occupations with a greater share of females pay less than those with a lower share, controlling for education and skill. This association is explained by two dominant views: devaluation and queuing. The former views the pay offered in an occupation to affect its female proportion, due to employers' preference for men--a gendered labor queue. The…
Descriptors: Females, Employment Patterns, Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials
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Wen, Ming; Lauderdale, Diane S.; Kandula, Namratha R. – Social Forces, 2009
Using tract-level data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. Census, this study addresses four questions: (1) Has the proportion of neighborhoods with high ethnic concentration changed in from 1990 to 2000? (2) What are the socio-demographic profiles of ethnic neighborhoods? (3) Are new ethnic neighborhoods forming in America's suburbs? (4) How common are…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Ethnicity, Immigrants, Census Figures