Organizational Mechanisms of Inequality in Work and Entrepreneurship

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This session brings together papers that examine how inequality is produced through search, evaluation, matching, and retention processes in contemporary labor markets and entrepreneurial settings. Across cases ranging from violent crime shocks and labor-force withdrawal, hiring for remote work, job search, multistage startup evaluation, and employee turnover in women-founded ventures, the papers show how access to opportunity is shaped by gendered beliefs, network ties, organizational legitimacy, and environmental instability. Taken together, the session highlights how inequality is (re)produced not only one decision point, but across multiple stages of resource allocation—from entry and screening to attachment, retention, and exit. The session speaks to scholarship on organizations, work and occupations, economic sociology, gender, and entrepreneurship. 

Sub Unit

• Economic Sociology Section / Economic Sociology Section Open Call Paper Sessions

Presider

• Lauren Clingan, Sciences Po

Individual Presentations

• Gender Gap in Callback Rates for Remote Work Preferences - David Pedulla, Harvard University; Aruna Ranganathan, Stanford University

• Getting in the Door vs. Winning It All: How Gendered Outcomes Change Across Evaluation Stages - Tristan L. Botelho, Yale University; Ethan J Poskanzer

• “Getting My Foot in the Door”: How Job Seekers Form and Activate New Ties for Referrals - Yingjian Liang, Johns Hopkins University

• The Loyalty Tax: How Founder Gender Affects Organizational Legitimacy and Employee Turnover - Ming D. Leung, University of California-Irvine; Simon (Seongbin) Yoon, University of California Irvine

• Violence Spikes and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from Mexico - Santiago Campero, University of Toronto

Session Organizer

• Minjae Kim, Yale University