With societal inequalities continuing to increase and organizations providing the vast majority of people with their income, we wanted to assess the ways in which organizational …
ML Small, D Pager - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020 - aeaweb.org
As in economics, racial discrimination has long been a focus of research in sociology. Yet the disciplines traditionally have differed in how they approach the topic. While some studies …
KC Kellogg - American journal of sociology, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
One of the great paradoxes of institutional change is that even when top managers in organizations provide support for change in response to new regulation, the employees …
We review the literature on recent changes to US employment relationships, focusing on the causes of those changes and their consequences for inequality. The US employment model …
Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in large, contemporary …
M Lutter - American Sociological Review, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. Less clear, however, is how different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement …
MD Leung - American Sociological Review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Social actors who move across categories are typically disadvantaged relative to their more focused peers. Yet candidates who compile experiences across disparate areas can either …
M Abraham - Administrative science quarterly, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
While most research explaining the persistence of gender inequality has focused on how decision makers' own biases perpetuate inequities, a growing body of work points to …
D Osnowitz - Freelancing expertise, 2010 - degruyter.com
Contract work is more important than ever—for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job with a stable employer is becoming …