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- Title
Cumulative Versus Continuous Disadvantage in an Unstructured Labor Market.
- Authors
Bielby, William T.; Bielby, Denise D.
- Abstract
The article studies gender differences in the careers of television scriptwriters in the United States. It compares two models of labor market dynamics. The first is a model of cumulative disadvantage whereby differential access to opportunity is increasingly consequential over the course of writers' careers. According to this model, males benefit more than females from access to career opportunities, and as a result small gender differences at entry into the career generate increasingly divergent earnings trajectories over time. The second is a model of continuous disadvantage whereby the contributions of women writers are uniformly devalued across career stages. It analyzes the barriers faced by women writers at the entry into the industry and pose a constant source of disadvantage over the course of their careers. It also examines whether there has been a measurable erosion during the 1980s in the career barriers faced by women writers in the television industry. According to the cumulative disadvantage model, the net returns to experience, lagged employment, and lagged earnings are expected to be lower for women than for men. The continuous disadvantage model implies no interaction between gender and measures of experience, prior employment and prior earnings.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SEX differences (Biology); WOMEN'S employment; TELEVISION &; women; LABOR market; AUTHORS
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 1992, Vol 19, Issue 4, p366
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0730888492019004003