论文标题
职业隔离的社交网络分析
A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation
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论文摘要
我们提出了两个社会群体之间职业隔离和劳动力市场不平等的平衡相互作用模型，该模型仅通过有记录的趋势来参考非正式的“社会色彩”求职者产生。在工作中，预期的社会色彩在战略上为来自不同社会群体的个人诱导了独特的职业选择，这些个人的职业选择进一步转化为具有持续的工资和就业不平等的稳定的部分职业种族隔离平衡，这与观察到的种族或性别劳动劳动力市场差异的模式一致。通过校准和仿真练习支持定性分析，我们还表明，第一和第二最好的实用社会最佳Opta都需要隔离，任何需要明确分配问题的集成政策。我们的框架强调，仅通过同质接触网络的社会互动可能是性别和种族劳动力市场差距传播和持久性的关键渠道，这是对长期研究的品味或统计歧视等长期研究的互补的。
We propose an equilibrium interaction model of occupational segregation and labor market inequality between two social groups, generated exclusively through the documented tendency to refer informal job seekers of identical "social color". The expected social color homophily in job referrals strategically induces distinct career choices for individuals from different social groups, which further translates into stable partial occupational segregation equilibria with sustained wage and employment inequality -- in line with observed patterns of racial or gender labor market disparities. Supporting the qualitative analysis with a calibration and simulation exercise, we furthermore show that both first and second best utilitarian social optima entail segregation, any integration policy requiring explicit distributional concerns. Our framework highlights that the mere social interaction through homophilous contact networks can be a pivotal channel for the propagation and persistence of gender and racial labor market gaps, complementary to long studied mechanisms such as taste or statistical discrimination.
