Labor Market Precarity and Human Capital in Gender Disparities in Trajectories of Labor Force Attachment

• In Event: 20817 - Stalled Gender Revolution: Precarity, Segregation, and Labor Market Attachment

Abstract

We use the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, 1979 and 1997 cohorts, to estimate group-based multi-trajectories of labor force attachment for two cohorts and predict membership in these multi-trajectories. By first documenting the trends in longitudinal trajectories of labor force attachment for two cohorts and then estimating their predictors, our study makes three important contributions to our understanding of the competing roles of rising human capital and rising labor market precarity. First, we demonstrate considerable heterogeneity in women’s gains and men’s losses in the labor market. Second, we find evidence that early exposure to labor market precarity shape trends in longitudinal trajectories of labor force attachment. Third, we provide some of the first evidence that exposure to labor market precarity is implicated in the stalled gender revolution.

Authors

• Sarah Damaske, Pennsylvania State University

• Adrianne Frech, Ohio University HCOM-Cleveland

• Jisu Park, Pennsylvania State University