517 - Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work Paper Sessions. Race and Ethnicity in Organizations and Markets

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session features four papers that develop and test theories linking the study of race and ethnicity to the study of work and occupations. Two papers focus on race and place -- one with a reformulation of the contact hypothesis, and the other with an assessment of how residence in a neighborhood with recent violent crime affects employment. A third paper tests how stereotypes play differently into the employment of whites and blacks, while a fourth considers public sector reform and its impact on occupational race and gender composition and wages. All bring new insight into our understanding of the ways in which race patterns market processes.

Sub Unit

• Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work / Open Topic on Organizations, Occupations, and Work (5 sessions)

Session Organizer

• Steven Vallas, Northeastern University

Presider

• Steven Vallas, Northeastern University

Individual Presentations

• Ethnic Diversity in Workplaces and Neighbourhoods: Prejudice and the Countervailing Role of Positive/Negative Inter-group Contact - James Laurence, Manchester University

• Fear or Familiarity? Neighborhood Effects and Employers’ Perceptions of a Criminal Record - Sanaz Mobasseri, University of California, Berkeley

• How Race and Unemployment Shape Labor Market Opportunities: Additive, Amplified, or Muted Effects? - David Pedulla, Stanford University

• Moving Up or Going Nowhere? Race and Gender Inequality in Management by Sector of Employment, 1980-2012 - Moriah Wren Willow, Univeristy of Maryland

Discussant

• George Wilson, University of Miami