Race in the Workplace and Labor Market Inequality: Dissertation Summary

Authors

Julie A. Kmec, University of Pennsylvania

Award Type

Honorable Mention

Dissertation Advisor

Paula England

Abstract

My dissertation integrates a labor market stratification and an organizational demography approach to investigate labor market inequalities in race and gender. My foremost research concern is to investigate inequality in employer allocation of rewards to minority and majority group workers and, particularly, how the allocation of rewards occurs in and is patterned by features of work establishments. A secondary concern focuses on the ways in which employers systematically sort whites and minorities into different jobs, Analyses presented in my dissertation are among the first to use establishment worker linked data to explore the association between race segregation at the job-level and worker outcomes,

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