What’s in an Occupation? Investigating Within-Occupation Variation and Gender Segregation Using Job Titles and Task Descriptions

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Occupations have long been central to the study of inequality and mobility. However, occupational categories typical in most U.S. survey data conceal potentially important patterns within occupations. This project uses a novel source that has not previously released for analysis: verbatim text responses provided by respondents General Social Survey from 1972 2018 when asked about their occupation. These allow an investigation variation occupations, terms job titles task descriptions, occupation-level factors associated with this variation. I construct index similarity based on average pairwise cosine between descriptions Findings indicate substantial level across Occupational prestige, education, income are less heterogeneity but slightly more descriptions. Gender diversity is internal both In addition, use case gender segregation demonstrate how can depth form stratification.

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عنوان ژورنال: American Sociological Review

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1939-8271', '0003-1224']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224211042053