Race-Gender Composition and Occupational Pay Degradation
Race-Gender Composition and Occupational Pay Degradation
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种族性别构成和职业薪酬下降
DOI：
10.1525/sp.2003.50.1.14
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发表时间：
2003
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Lisa M. Catanzarite
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作者：
Lisa M. Catanzarite
本文研究了种族性别构成对职业薪酬恶化的影响。这些分析使用了来自当前人口调查的职业水平数据，以模拟1971-1981年和1982-1992年的工资变化。我证明了工资侵蚀白色男子和其他在职人员在女性占主导地位的领域，并显示由白色妇女的代表驱动的效果。在非洲裔美国人占很大比例的职业中，工资也受到了侵蚀。这些纵向调查提供了急需的背景下，横断面研究，不能辨别时间动态的薪酬组成协会。这里的结果提供了明确的因果关系的证据：职业构成影响工资。我认为，组成相关的工资下降是由于更大的脆弱性的职业，下属群体的代表性过高，并可能通过不同的机制，在职者的低社会地位变得明显。这一讨论超越了薪酬惩罚仅仅是由于文化贬值的假设。
This article investigates the influence of race-gender composition on pay deterioration in occupations. The analyses use occupation-level data derived from Current Population Surveys to model wage changes from 1971–1981 and 1982–1992. I demonstrate wage erosion—for white men and other incumbents-in female-dominated fields, and show the effect to be driven by white women's representation. Pay also eroded in occupations with a large share of African American men. These longitudinal investigations provide much-needed context for cross-sectional studies, which cannot discern temporal dynamics in the pay-composition association. The results here provide clear evidence of a causal relationship: occupational composition influences wages. I suggest that composition-related wage degradation is due to the greater vulnerability of occupations where subordinate groups are overrepresented and may become manifest via diverse mechanisms related to incumbents' low social status. This discussion pushes beyond the assumption that pay penalties are due only to cultural devaluation.