This study brings together gender inequality and labor process research to investigate how divergent control structures generate inequality in work experiences for women and men. Content-coded data on 155 work groups are analyzed using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to identify combinations of control techniques encountered by female and male…

Among 540 successful small businesses in New England, female-owned businesses had lower sales volumes and produced lower incomes than male-owned businesses. The smaller size of women's businesses was the major explanatory factor, followed by women's lack of experience and concentration in less profitable industries. Contains 66 references. (SV)

High school students were hired to work on a door-to-door selling task, so designed that delaying a sale produced a larger sales commission. Subjects who recognized and selected a delayed strategy in the task shifted toward a preference for delaying reward. (Authors)

Analysis of national survey data found that, among young adult couples separating or divorcing during the 1980s, women's postdisruption economic welfare was significantly lower than men's within all racial-ethnic groups. This disparity stemmed, directly and indirectly, from women's roles as primary child caretakers and was not related to gender…

Among approximately 1,000 students interviewed yearly, 9th-12th grade, formation of occupational values was unrelated to employment itself or hours of work. However, opportunity to learn useful skills at work was consistently related to increasingly stable intrinsic and extrinsic value dimensions. As with adults, the conditions of work are what…

Among 1,359 Swedish professionals surveyed, women had only 68% of the supervisory positions that men had, and only 77% of earnings. Although gender differences in human capital and structural resources partly explained the gaps, the major explanatory factor was occupational segregation. However, men's advantage persisted even when occupation and…

Analyses of National Longitudinal Survey data indicate that cognitive skill level affects access to high-skill occupations and earnings. Lower cognitive skill levels for African Americans and U.S.-born Mexican Americans explain a substantial proportion of income differences between these groups and European Americans but not the gender gap in pay…

Analysis of North Carolina survey data indicates that females' average hourly wages were 71% of males', and blacks' wages were 78% of whites'. Human capital factors (educational attainment and occupational experience) explained 31% and 3% of the racial and gender gaps, respectively. Job gender composition explained 56% of the gender gap; job…

Uses national longitudinal survey data to compare the impact of status characteristics important during work careers (race, residence, education, occupation) on men's economic outcomes before and after the normal age of eligibility for retirement benefits. Results generally (but not completely) support the argument that determinants of income…

Analysis of longitudinal data on the employment histories of 1,386 women from age 16 to 28 found that mature women's labor force attachment was influenced by the timing, amount, and volatility of their early work experience, as well as by educational attainment, race, and giving birth. (Contains 58 references.) (SV)

Analyzes the effect of the transition from a state socialist economy to a market-oriented economy on personal income inequality in urban China. Examines returns to human capital (educational attainment and work experience) in low-profit state firms, high-profit state firms, and market firms. (Contains 54 references.) (Author/SV)