To my mother, Dang Hoang Phuoc Hien, to my father, Mai Quynh Nam, and to my dear wife, Mai-Linh T. His warm smile as he turns from his computer to welcome his students into his office is one of the things I value most about my Vanderbilt experience. I would also like to thank members of the faculty at Vanderbilt whose mentorship steered me in the right direction: George Becker, C.
I am grateful to current and former members of the Vanderbilt community: Jeffrey Jorge, Gui Russo, Alvin Pearman, Anna Jacobs, Stacey Houston, Ashley Kim, Gabriela Leon-Perez, Peter Vielehr, Kanetha Wilson, Ben Tyndall, Erika Leslie, Allison McGrath, Marka Anderson and Taylor Hargrove. To my father, Mai Quynh Nam: Thank you, father, for your endless support of my career and for planting the seeds of my respect for sociology. Finally, to my lovely wife Mai-Linh, you are an endless source of joy in my life.
Two Measures of the Absolute Size of the Self-Employed Labor Force Predicting the Callback Gap in Microarray Between Freelancers and Unemployed Workers ..116 14. Relative Measures of Industry-Specific Self-Employment Rates Predicting the Callback Gap micro-adjusted between full-time employees and unemployed workers ..122 18.
Introduction
How these important structural changes intersect to create new forms of labor market stratification in the new economy. They also examined how these individuals adapted to changing labor market norms while operating in the new economy as temporary workers or freelancers (Barley and Kunda 2006, McRobbie 2016, Osnowitz 2010, Smith 2002). Because of their methodological advantages in detecting employment discrimination, audit and correspondence studies dominate the empirical literature on race-ethnicity discrimination that occurs at the labor market employment interface.
The only audit study analyzing the Asian-White gap was conducted in the Canadian labor market (Oreopoulos 2011). How urban demographic contexts shape the dynamics of labor market discrimination faced by minorities. These methodological contributions correspond to the changing contexts of the modern labor market that characterized the historical moment in which this thesis situates itself.
By including freelancers, this study contributes to a better understanding of the labor market consequences associated with an increasingly heterogeneous precarious workforce. By including Asians with whites, Latinos, and blacks, this design improves on existing studies by reflecting demographic changes that have been observed in the labor market.
Energetic Entrepreneurs or Failed Mercenaries: The Racialized Labor Market
Most of these studies focus on how freelancers transition out of traditional employment and operate in the new economy, ignoring precarious workers who seek to return to full-time employment. The US labor market is in the midst of a sweeping demographic transition, with racial/ethnic minorities entering the workforce at an increasing rate. The article examines the extent to which race continues to serve as a critical barrier to full-time employment and empirically assesses the prevalence of race-based discrimination in the contemporary American labor market.
Quillian calls experiments: "the best method for assessing causality" that can "produce a clean estimate" of instances of racial discrimination for the outcome under investigation. First, as discussed in previous sections, despite the increasing prevalence of freelancers in the labor market, little is known about how workers transition into and out of this segment of the labor force. I made sure that the second candidate in the pair did not overlap with the first in any of the attributes.
This finding suggests that there are significant racial/ethnic differences in the consequences of self-employment. 12. On the other hand, existing studies routinely report that Latinos face some negative perceptions in the workplace. Gaddis (2014) also shows that a degree from an elite university does not fully compensate for the penalty of being black in the labor market.
This paper addresses this gap in the literature by conducting a large-scale audit study of labor market implications.
Contextualizing Discrimination: The Role of Urban Demographic Context in Shaping Racial
Hiring Discrimination
A contextual theory of unemployment scarring: the role of self-employment in shaping labor
Conclusion
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