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What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?:
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A large literature documents the extent of low wages and limited fringe benefits in the United States, but research has only recently begun to explore the relationship between economic and temporal dimensions as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Precarious work in the United States is defined by economic and temporal dimensions. A large literature documents the extent of low wages and limited fringe benefits, but research has only recently...read more
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
TL;DR: A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks's new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s.
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Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor
TL;DR: Wright and Middendorf as discussed by the authors present a collection of consumer politics regarding local issues in the global red meat chain, revealing the distinctive ecology and political cultures shaping local negotiations over food safety, which in turn play out the multiple politics of rights (citizen/consumer) and responsibilities (state/market) in regulating the meat industry.
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What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory
TL;DR: The authors make only one point in this article: every quantitative study must be able to answer the question: what is your estimand? The estimand is the target quantity, the purpose of the statistical analy...
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Platform Precarity: surviving algorithmic insecurity in the gig economy
TL;DR: A new model for gig economy precarity is developed by developing a new model that can be tested quantitatively and relates to the vulnerability and fear that workers experience as a result of working in an unstable and opaque environment in which platforms use customer-generated ratings to score workers, and algorithms to amplify the consequences of those scores.
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That Which is Essential has been Made Invisible: The Need to Bring a Structural Risk Perspective to Reduce Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare.
Megan Feely,Emily Adlin Bosk +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new framework for thinking about risk, the structural risk perspective, and call for a revisioning of assessment of risk within child welfare that acknowledges the social determinants of CPS involvement.
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Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
TL;DR: The homophily principle as mentioned in this paper states that similarity breeds connection, and that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics.
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion
TL;DR: The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes.
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The Complexity of Intersectionality
TL;DR: The authors argue that intersectionality is the most important theoretical contribution women's studies, in conjunction with related fields, has made so far, and they even say that intersectional is a central category of analysis in women’s studies, and that women are perhaps alone in the academy in the extent to which they have embraced intersectionality.
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Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
TL;DR: The authors study race in the labor market by sending fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers and find that white names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews than African-Americans.
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
TL;DR: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984 and was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision as mentioned in this paper. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative."