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What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers
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This article is published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review.The article was published on 1997-10-01. It has received 476 citations till now.read more
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The Mark of a Criminal Record
TL;DR: The findings of this study reveal an important, and much underrecognized, mechanism of stratification in the criminal justice system, which presents a major barrier to employment, with important implications for racial disparities.
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The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets
Devah Pager,Hana Shepherd +1 more
TL;DR: This discussion seeks to orient readers to some of the key debates in the study of discrimination and to provide a roadmap for those interested in building upon this long and important line of research.
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Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration:
Becky Pettit,Bruce Western +1 more
TL;DR: This paper study penal inequality by estimating lifetime risks of imprisonment for black and white men at different levels of education and find that the risks of incarceration are highly stratified by education, with 30 percent of those without college education and nearly 60 percent of high school dropouts going to prison by 1999.
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Hiring as cultural matching: The case of elite professional service firms
TL;DR: The authors presents a case study of hiring in elite professional service firms, and investigates the often suggested but heretofore empiricallistic assumptions about culture as a vehicle of labor market sorting.
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis: A review of recent studies and their implications for welfare reform
TL;DR: More than two dozen new studies on the spatial mismatch hypothesis have been completed since Kain's review as discussed by the authors, and these studies use more suitable data and superior methodologies than earlier studies and therefore provide the most reliable evidence to date.
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Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers
TL;DR: In this article, the Second Edition, the authors present a survey of job search and economic theory in the context of information flow and the problem of embeddedness in the job search process.
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The Truly Disadvantaged
TL;DR: The Truly Disadvantaged as discussed by the authors examines the relationship between race, employment, and education from the 1950s to the 1990s, with surprising and provocative findings about the convergence of race and poverty.
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How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984-1989
TL;DR: The authors found that workers who use computers on their job earn roughly a 10 to 15 percent higher wage rate than workers who do not use a computer at work, and that the expansion in computer use in the l980s can account for between one-third and one-half of the observed increase in the rate of return to education.