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2019
Journal Article
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Mapping Stratification: The industry-occupation space reveals the network structure of inequality

Abstract
Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individuals job characteristics and their position in the industrial structure. Utilizing a dataset of 76.6 million Brazilian workers and methods from network science, we map the Brazilian Industry-Occupation Space (BIOS). The BIOS measures the extent to which 600 occupations co-appear in 585 industries, resulting in a complex network that shows how industrial-occupational communities provide important information on the network segmentation of society. Gender, race, education, and income are concentrated unevenly across the core-periphery structure of the BIOS. Moreover, we identify 28 industrial occupational communities from the BIOS network structure and report their contribution to total income inequality in Brazil. Finally, we quantify the relative poverty within these communities. In sum, the BIOS reveals how the coupling of industries and occupations contributes to mapping social stratification.
Author(s)
Hartmann, Dominik
Jara-Figueroa, Cristian
Kaltenberg, Mary
Gala, Paulo
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Social Science Research Network : SSRN. eLibrary
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10.2139/ssrn.3399239
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Tags
  • labor market

  • social structure

  • stratification

  • economic sociology

  • wages

  • inequality

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