Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium

How are the work trajectories of Chilean women? This qualitative study analyzes the female work trajectories through interviews and biograms in a sample of 50 Chilean women, professionals and non-professionals, between the ages of 24 and 88. The article proposes an original typology of female work trajectories and relates type of work trajectory with Piore’s theory of labor market segmentation. The paper discusses the challenges and weaknesses of the Chilean women’s labor outcome and presents recent data to extrapolate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable work trajectories. It considers the type of State and possible actions to achieve greater welfare and social development regarding gender equality.

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LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SELECTED THREADS OF THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMY. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

Polityka Społeczna ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0015.4501 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 570 (9) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Marek Bednarski

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Theoretical Analysis ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Labor Market Segmentation

The article attempts to explain the processes of labor market segmentation from the perspective of selected theories included in the New Institutional Economy trend. Finally, the conclusions formulated earlier are confronted with empirical research on segmentation in Polish conditions

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Labor Market Segmentation by Public-Private Sector and Its Influence on Gender Wage Gap

Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China ◽

10.1007/978-981-13-1987-7_5 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 109-137

Author(s):

Xinxin Ma

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Private Sector ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Gender Wage Gap ◽

Wage Gap ◽

Labor Market Segmentation

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Unions and Non-Standard Work: Union Representation and Wage Premiums across Non-Standard Work Arrangements in Canada, 1997–2014

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/0019793919852926 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 72 (4) ◽

pp. 1009-1035 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rafael Gomez ◽

Danielle Lamb

Keyword(s):

Union Wage ◽

Labour Force ◽

Wage Premium ◽

Full Time ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Standard Work ◽

Union Wage Premium ◽

Percentage Points ◽

Wage Premiums ◽

Union Representation

The authors examine the association between unionization and non-standard work in terms of coverage and wages. They use data from the master files of Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) between 1997–98 and 2013–14 to define and measure non-standard work and to provide a continuum of vulnerability across work arrangements. The estimated probability of being employed in some form of non-permanent job increased 2.9 percentage points from 1997 to 2014. During that same period, the estimated probability of being in a non-full-time, non-permanent job—another way of capturing non-standard work—increased 2.5 percentage points. Although estimated union wage premiums declined rather precipitously for all groups, the union wage advantage remained highest among non-standard workers. Further, the authors find the union wage premium is largest for the most vulnerable of non-standard workers. In terms of estimates that look across the earnings distribution, the union wage premium among non-standard workers is larger for workers higher up the earnings profile.

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Urbanization and Labor Market Segmentation

Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path - Urbanization and Its Impact in Contemporary China ◽

10.1007/978-981-13-2342-3_4 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 83-112

Author(s):

Lei Fan

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Labor Market Segmentation

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Intersegment and Racial Differences in Nonemployment Mobility

The American Economist ◽

10.1177/056943459203600107 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 35-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jeffrey Waddoups ◽

Djeto Assane

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Racial Differences ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Dynamic Process ◽

Mobility Patterns ◽

Labor Market Segmentation ◽

Mobility Studies ◽

Theoretical Category

This paper is an exploration of intersegment and racial differences in job-leaving experience, which links ideas found in mobility studies of the labor market segmentation school and the literature which describes unemployment as a dynamic process. Findings suggest that there are significant differences in nonemployment mobility patterns across the segment structure, lending support to researchers who view the labor market as segmented. In addition, after controlling for segmentation, racial differences in nonemployment mobility are revealed, suggesting that race, too, is an important theoretical category that cannot be ignored.

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