30226 - Centering the Experiences of Workers in an Unequal Labor Market

Description

From mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequality to the role of English proficiency on employment outcomes, the papers in this session put the workers front and center, tracing the experiences of study participants to the labor market through an inequality lens. The authors have studied workers and aspiring workers who hold multiple identities: Central African immigrants, refugees, university students, inner-city residents in West-Baltimore, and freelance platform workers in Argentina. We offer our audience a diverse glimpse into experiences of workers in different yet interrelated labor markets across the globe.

Sub Unit

• Labor Market

Presider

• Rohini Jalan, McGill University

Individual Presentations

• Ecosystems of Fragility: Feasibility of Platform Worker Cooperatives in Fragile Contexts - Michelle T Lee, Northwestern University

• Influence of English Proficiency on the Employment Outcomes of Central African Immigrants in the United States. - Lydia Mabel Okabe, University of Texas at Austin; Hyacinth Udah, James Cook University

• Divided Pipelines: Pre-Professional Clubs and Racial Inequality in Elite Labor Markets - Zorina Chen, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Janet Xu, Stanford University

Session Organizer

• Sandra Portocarrero, London School of Economics