Research
Publications
“Black-White Inequality in Earnings Losses After Job Displacement, 1981-2020.” Social Forces. Forthcoming.
“Managing Motherhood: How ‘Queen Bee’ Managers in the US Service Sector Reduce Motherhood Advantages in Work Scheduling.” Social Forces. Forthcoming.
“Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the U.S. Service Sector.” ILR Review. 2022. (with Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett)
Current Projects
The Opportunity Structure for Career Mobility and Inequality
One strand of my research investigates how income and job mobility over the career contribute to economic inequality, with a particular focus on how the structure of jobs in local labor markets shapes inequality in workers’ career paths.
Working Papers
“Stratification After Job Displacement: The Role of Job Tasks, Queueing, and the Declining Demand for Routine Labor” (Revise and Resubmit, Socio-Economic Review) (available upon request)
“Local Labor Market Polarization and Inequality in Career Earnings Mobility” (available upon request)
Inequality in the Low-Wage Labor Market
A second strand of my research examines inequalities in the low-wage labor market. This work considers the individual, organizational, and structural forces driving both the evolution of employment relations in the low-wage labor market and economic inequalities among low-wage workers.
Working Papers
- “Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters” (Revise and Resubmit, American Sociological Review) (with Lukas Lehner and Zachary Parolin) (available upon request)