scholarly journals The evolving impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on gender inequality in the US labor market: The COVID motherhood penalty

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Couch ◽  
Robert W. Fairlie ◽  
Huanan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Motherhood Penalty ◽  
The Us

Precarious Work and Young Workers in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne L. Kalleberg
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Us ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
And Training

This chapter discusses how the growth of precarious work and the polarization of the US labor market have produced major problems for the employment experiences of young workers. A prominent indicator of young workers’ difficulties in the labor market has been the sharp increase in their unemployment rates since the Great Recession. Another, equally if not more severe, problem faced by young workers today is the relatively low quality of the jobs that they were able to get. Other problems include the exclusion of young workers from the labor market and from education and training opportunities; the inability to find jobs that utilize their education, training, and skills; and the inability to obtain jobs that provide them with an opportunity to get a foothold in a career that would lead to progressively better jobs and thus be able to construct career narratives.

scholarly journals Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the US labor market

2008 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaditya Mattoo ◽  
Ileana Cristina Neagu ◽  
Çağlar Özden
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The Us

New forms of employment in the context of digitalization of the labor market

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Elina O. Illarionova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Psychological Insecurity ◽  
Gender Aspect

Nowadays as part of the process of digitalization of the labor market there are structural changes: new forms and types of employment appear. A global trend in recent years is the increase in the number of employees working remotely, which has significant value in difficult epidemiological situation in the world. Today, women are far more at risk of being deprived of the benefits of digital innovations, job losses due to robotics and automatization, have to put much more effort to achieve wage levels of male workers. The article examines the typology of new non-standard forms of employment, their distinctive features. The author highlights the main advantages and risks associated with the wide spreading of new forms of employment in the context of the digitalization of the labor market. The study touches upon the gender aspect, special attention is paid to the analysis of innovative forms of employment and the involvement of women in innovative teams, ICT and STEM-specialties. The factors influencing the formation of innovative behavior in national innovation systems are described. The ways of coordination of state, business and research structures within the framework of "collective action" aimed at stimulating scientific and technological progress in the development of the knowledge economy, the digital economy are outlined. The author also highlighted a number of fundamental reasons for the socio-psychological insecurity of male and female workers associated with the use of non-standard employment, noted in general terms ways of solving problems in the field of precarious employment and leveling gender inequality in the context of the development of the digital economy.

scholarly journals The labor market in the US, 2000–2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Hamermesh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The Us

Recent Trends in U.S. Earnings Inequality by Gender

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce P. Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Theil Index ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Women's Earnings

This paper presents an overview of recent trends in U.S. earnings inequality with a focus on gender differences. Data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Censuses are used. Earnings and per capita household income inequality measures have risen from 1980 to 2000, both overall and among women and men separately. Theil index decompositions illustrate that within-gender inequality is rising. Simulations that treat women “more like men” in the labor market raise women’s earnings relative to men but also have the effect of increasing within-gender inequality for women.

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