Occupational Structures

Occupational Structures of Low-and High-Wage Service Sector in US – low-wage establishments organize production to less intensively use labor in skilled occupations

The occupational structure of an establishment provides a description of its production process by detailing the distribution and relative intensity of tasks performed. In this paper, I investigate whether there are substantive differences in the occupational structures of low- and high-wage service sector establishments. I show that low-wage establishments organize production to use less labor … Continue reading →