{"title":"U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020.","authors":"Michael Lachanski","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2025.11.1.11","DOIUrl":"10.7758/rsf.2025.11.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How have inequalities in job stability evolved in the twenty-first century between demographic groups? I compute expected job tenures, akin to life expectancy in demographic research, for the population as a whole and by subgroups defined by selected ascribed characteristics (sex, race, and demographic research, for the population as a whole and by subgroups defined by selected ascribed characteristics (sex, race, and ethnicity) over biennial periods from 1996 to 2020. Racialized inequalities at hiring were the most persistent and large: white workers maintained an expected job tenure advantage at hiring relative to black workers in all periods. Inequalities in expected job tenure by sex were minimal at the time of hiring, but a male advantage emerges at the one-year mark in most periods. Hispanic workers maintained large advantages in expected job tenure relative to non-Hispanic workers in some periods and small disadvantages in others.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":"224-246"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11823548/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143416169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica Halliday Hardie, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Judith A Seltzer, Jacob G Foster
{"title":"Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class.","authors":"Jessica Halliday Hardie, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Judith A Seltzer, Jacob G Foster","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2024.10.5.07","DOIUrl":"10.7758/rsf.2024.10.5.07","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We develop a novel application of machine learning and apply it to the interview transcripts from the American Voices Project (N = 1,396), using discourse atom topic modeling to explore social class variation in the centrality of family in adults' lives. We take a two-phase approach, first analyzing transcripts at the person level and then at the line level. Our findings suggest that family, as represented by talk, is more central in the lives of those without a college degree than among the college educated. However, the degree of institutional overlap between family and other key institutions-health, work, religion, and criminal justice-does not vary by education. We interpret these findings in the context of debates about the deinstitutionalization of family in the contemporary United States. This demonstrates the value of a new method for analyzing qualitative interview data at scale. We address ways to expand the use of this method to shed light on educational disparities.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"10 5","pages":"165-187"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11804896/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143384020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Taryn W Morrissey, Scott W Allard, Elizabeth Pelletier
{"title":"Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children's School Readiness.","authors":"Taryn W Morrissey, Scott W Allard, Elizabeth Pelletier","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2022.8.3.04","DOIUrl":"10.7758/rsf.2022.8.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counties are less likely to attend private center-based ECE, and nonprofit childcare program expenditures in rural areas lag. We also find rural-metropolitan differences in school readiness diminish when geographic characteristics are controlled. Results suggest that county-level context and state-level policy features shape children's early experiences, and that public ECE investments are key in narrowing disparities in ECE attendance and in children's outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"8 3","pages":"100-123"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/d3/86/nihms-1868649.PMC10575474.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41240805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trevor Peckham, Kaori Fujishiro, Anjum Hajat, Brian P Flaherty, Noah Seixas
{"title":"Evaluating Employment Quality as a Determinant of Health in a Changing Labor Market.","authors":"Trevor Peckham, Kaori Fujishiro, Anjum Hajat, Brian P Flaherty, Noah Seixas","doi":"10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.09","DOIUrl":"10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.09","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The shifting nature of employment in recent decades has not been adequately examined from a public health perspective. To that end, traditional models of work and health research need to be expanded to include the relational and contractual aspects of employment that also affect health. We examine the association of three health outcomes with different types of employment in the contemporary U.S. labor market, as measured by a multidimensional construct of employment quality (EQ) derived from latent class analysis. We find that EQ is associated with self-rated health, mental health, and occupational injury. Further, we explore three proposed mediating mechanisms of the EQ-health relationship (material deprivation, employment-related stressors, and occupational risk factors), and find each to be supported by these data.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"5 4","pages":"258-281"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6756794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41219825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}