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Avent-Holt, Dustin; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald – Social Forces, 2012
We examine the relational model of inequality using samples of employer-employee matched data from manufacturing plants in the United States and Japan. We argue that gender is a salient status characteristic in both the United States and Japan, but because of differences in gender politics, wage inequality will vary more across U.S. workplaces…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Diversity (Institutional), Manufacturing, Foreign Countries
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McTague, Tricia; Stainback, Kevin; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald – Social Forces, 2009
This article examines the influence of resource dependence and institutional processes on post-Civil Rights Act changes in private sector workplace segregation. We use data collected by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1966 through 2000 to examine organizations embedded within their firm, industry, local labor market and…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Civil Rights Legislation, Gender Discrimination
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Wight, Vanessa R.; Raley, Sara B.; Bianchi, Suzanne M. – Social Forces, 2008
Using data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys, this article examines nonstandard work hours and their relationship to parents' family, leisure and personal care time--informing the discussion of the costs and benefits of working nonstandard hours. The results suggest that parents who work nonstandard evening hours spend less time in…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Time Management, Work Environment, Working Hours