From 'opt out' to blocked out : the negative consequences of intermittent employment
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In today's labor market, the majority of men and women have experienced a lapse in labor market participation at some point in their careers. Unemployment from a job loss and leaving work to care for family or children are the two most common reasons behind interruptions in employment. In the dissertation, I ask: how do employment lapses influence subsequent labor market outcomes, such as wages and hiring, and how does the type of employment lapse affect labor market rewards? To answer this question, I use multiple data sources: a longitudinal survey of wages, an audit study of employers, and two original survey experiments. The empirical studies combined allow me to assess the role of employer bias, in addition to other mechanisms and processes that contribute to the negative effects of intermittent employment. I find that the reason behind a lapse matters: relative to individuals who experienced unemployment due to job loss, job applicants who temporarily opted out of work to care for family fare generally worse in terms of wages and hiring prospects. I argue that the disadvantages faced by opt out applicants is due to both the devaluation of care work and employers' perceptions that these applicants violate ideal worker standards. This research provides a systematic causal test of the processes disadvantaging the intermittently employed, which is important to understand given the ubiquity of interrupted employment in today's workforce.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Weisshaar, Katherine |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Primary advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Katherine Weisshaar. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Katherine Rose Weisshaar
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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