Trends in job instability at the intersection of gender and ethnicity, 1992-2023
11:00am -12:00pm
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Social Science Centre 5220
A lecture by Xavier St-Denis
Xavier St-Denis is an assistant professor at the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and director of the Social Statistics Study Group (SSSG). His research focuses on social inequalities and their transmission across generations, as well as education, career trajectories and social statistics. He holds a PhD in sociology from McGill University. Prior to joining the INRS faculty, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and as an analyst at Statistics Canada.
Abstract
Women’s increase in job tenure has masked the decrease in job stability for men in the late 20th century, a pattern called “masked instability”. Masked instability research has investigated this issue by focusing on aggregate trends. In this paper, we argue that this approach disregards the inequalities different groups of racialized men and women faced in terms of rising job instability over time. This is an important drawback, as related research finds that men and women of various ethnicities experience significantly different employment dynamics such as exposure to precarious work. In this paper, we use data from the United Kingdom’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) from 1992 to 2022 to conduct a disaggregated analysis of the evolution of the job tenure of men and women from various ethnic groups across three decades.
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