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Davis, Katrinell. "Industrial Restructuring and the Employment Opportunity of High School Educated African-American Women Workers, 1970- 2000" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 11, 2006 <Not Available>. 2008-10-22 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103651_index.html>

Davis, K. M. , 2006-08-11 "Industrial Restructuring and the Employment Opportunity of High School Educated African-American Women Workers, 1970- 2000" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2008-10-22 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103651_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The opportunity structure for African-American women has improved greatly since the restructuring of the labor market, which began over thirty years ago. However, due to the overemphasis on how human capital, social ties and family structures have impacted their occupational opportunity, we know little about the stability of their progress in the labor market, and how their employment opportunity has unfolded overtime. This paper examines the extent to which industrial restructuring inspired an improvement in the employment opportunity of high school educated African-American women workers. I measure employment opportunity by tracking the share of jobs workers held in the labor force across age cohorts between 1970 and 2000 with Census data drawn from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. The findings in this analysis show that the more things have changed, the more things have stayed the same. What this means is that, although the income gap has closed between similarly educated black women and white women across age cohorts, the findings in this analysis illustrate that African-American women are still underrepresented in high status and high paying jobs in relation to white men, and are worse off in terms of job placement in relation to black men and white women.

Understanding Shifts in the Occupational Status of African American women workers: A multilevel analysis of age related differences in attainment, 1970-2000

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