Stratification in a Dual Economy: A Sectoral Model of Earnings Determination

Robust Identities or Nonentities? Typecasting in the Feature‐Film Labor Market

“…4 Various studies have illustrated the idiosyncratic patterns characteristic of particular professions and labor markets (e.g., Hall 1948;Smith and Abbott 1983;Abbott and Hrycak 1990;Blair-Loy 1999). In addition, structuralist approaches to labor markets have demonstrated that barriers between economic sectors govern cross-sectional differences in worker experiences (e.g., Beck, Horan, and Tolbert et al, 1978). But there exist no general models for the sequences of shifts among jobs or sectors that govern experience in any external labor market.…”

Kink in the intermodal supply chain: interorganizational relations in the port economy

“…Work done primarily in the 1970s and 1980s on labor market outcomes identified a segmented, bifurcated, and non-equivalent labor market structure (Piore 1972;Reich, Gordon, and Edwards 1973;Harrison and Sum 1979;Dickens and Lang 1988). The segmented labor market theory provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for studying how work in different industries, economic sectors, and organizations shape the labor market outcomes of different workers (Reich, Gordon, and Edwards 1973;Edwards, Reich, and Gordon 1975;Beck, Horan, and Tolbert 1978). The contrasting labor market conditions tend to correlate with a workers location in the 'dual economy' (Beck, Horan, and Tolbert 1978) which draws a distinction between primary and secondary, core and periphery, or monopoly and competitive sectors of the economy.…”

“…The segmented labor market theory provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for studying how work in different industries, economic sectors, and organizations shape the labor market outcomes of different workers (Reich, Gordon, and Edwards 1973;Edwards, Reich, and Gordon 1975;Beck, Horan, and Tolbert 1978). The contrasting labor market conditions tend to correlate with a workers location in the 'dual economy' (Beck, Horan, and Tolbert 1978) which draws a distinction between primary and secondary, core and periphery, or monopoly and competitive sectors of the economy. The primary sector is made up of large capital-intensive firms exercising quasi-monopoly pricing power and larger profit margins.…”

The impact of structural dynamics on job mobility rates in the United States

“…Segmented labor market theory argues that the structure of the labor market determines the mobility patterns of individual workers. The theory posits that the labor market has multiple segments, and that legal, institutional, and economic barriers limit a worker's mobility among them (Beck, Horan, and Tolbert 1978;Althauser and Kalleberg 1981). Finally, organizational ecology studies vital processes of organizations-founding, growth, decline, dissolution, and merger-that may affect patterns of job mobility by altering the opportunity structure (Carroll, Haveman, and Swaminathan 1992;Haveman and Cohen 1994;Carroll and Hannan 2000, p.429).…”

“…The outcome of mobility within an expanding industry should be the opposite of mobility out of it. This logic is an application of the labor market segmentation theory (Beck, Horan, and Tolbert 1978;Althauser and Kalleberg 1981), which posits that the mobility between segments have significant implication on the worker's job rewards, working conditions, and chances for career advancement. When we assume that the segments are identified by differential rates of industrial growth, workers who move from a job in a growing industry to another job in the same industry are continuously employed in the very same, prosperous industry.…”