U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020
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| Title: | U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020 |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Michael Lachanski (ORCID |
| Source: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 2025 11(1):224-246. |
| Availability: | Russell Sage Foundation. 112 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065. Tel: 212-750-6000; e-mail: journal@rsage.org; Web site: www.rsfjournal.org/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 23 |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (DHHS) Institute of Education Sciences (ED) |
| Contract Number: | T32HD007242 3505B200035 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Labor Market, Occupational Mobility, Personnel Selection, Tenure, Whites, African Americans, Latin Americans |
| ISSN: | 2377-8253 2377-8261 |
| Abstract: | How have inequalities in job stability evolved in the twenty-first century between demographic groups? I compute expected job tenures, akin to life expectancy in demographic research, for the population as a whole and by subgroups defined by selected ascribed characteristics (sex, race, and ethnicity) over biennial periods from 1996 to 2020. Racialized inequalities at hiring were the most persistent and large: white workers maintained an expected job tenure advantage at hiring relative to black workers in all periods. Inequalities in expected job tenure by sex were minimal at the time of hiring, but a male advantage emerges at the one-year mark in most periods. Hispanic workers maintained large advantages in expected job tenure relative to non-Hispanic workers in some periods and small disadvantages in others. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| IES Funded: | Yes |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1462580 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | How have inequalities in job stability evolved in the twenty-first century between demographic groups? I compute expected job tenures, akin to life expectancy in demographic research, for the population as a whole and by subgroups defined by selected ascribed characteristics (sex, race, and ethnicity) over biennial periods from 1996 to 2020. Racialized inequalities at hiring were the most persistent and large: white workers maintained an expected job tenure advantage at hiring relative to black workers in all periods. Inequalities in expected job tenure by sex were minimal at the time of hiring, but a male advantage emerges at the one-year mark in most periods. Hispanic workers maintained large advantages in expected job tenure relative to non-Hispanic workers in some periods and small disadvantages in others. |
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| ISSN: | 2377-8253 2377-8261 |
