A Life-Course Approach to Gender Differences in Work Outcomes and Occupational Mobility in Mexico: The Role of Migration

Hernandez Jabalera, Anairis

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Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Hernandez Jabalera, Anairis (creator); Lindstrom, David (Advisor); López-Sanders, Laura (Reader); White, Michael (Reader); Short, Susan (Reader); Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Family Demography, Social Inequality, Migration, Gender Studies
Extent:: 17, 196 p.

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Abstract:: Abstract of “A Life-Course Approach to Gender Differences in Work Outcomes and Occupational Mobility in Mexico: The Role of Migration” by Anairis Hernández Jabalera, Ph.D., Brown University, Feb 2023 In Mexico, and in other countries in Latin American, there is a profound social inequality. Unequal work opportunities have been persistent. Additionally, unequal opportunities for internal and international migration have also been a historical and structural feature in the region. This dissertation explores the impacts of internal and international migration on Mexican men and women work outcomes after migration, work trajectories and occupational mobility. I adopt an explicit gender and life-course perspective and I address heterogeneity in the Mexican labor markets. Throughout this dissertation I used a quantitative approach and diverse data sources, including the Encuesta Demografica Retrospectiva EDER, 2017 (Mexican Retrospective Demographic Survey). I answered four questions: 1) How to group occupational categories for the study of migrant’s occupational mobility in Mexico? 2) What are the patterns of Mexican men and women’s occupational trajectories? And how do these trajectories vary by gender and before and after migration? 3) What is the impact of internal and international migration on work opportunities in the short run, considering the mediating character of origin and familiar context? and 4) Are migration’s impacts ultimately translated in life-time occupational mobility for Mexican men and women? Results from the four chapters highlighted key transverse results. First, internal and international migration impact differently the work outcomes and the opportunities for occupational mobility. Overall, there is evidence of internal migration to be beneficial for work outcomes although results vary once considering interactions with gender, rural origin, and family status. Unlike internal migration, there is no straightforward evidence of international migration resulting in beneficial work outcomes or occupational mobility. Another general conclusion is that migration impacted men's and women’s occupational mobility transitions differently. Men benefited from internal migration; however, they also experienced a cost from international migration. For women, evidence confirmed that family responsibilities, and especially being in a union, constrained female salaried work opportunities in the short term and opportunities for occupational mobility in the long term.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2023

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Hernandez Jabalera, Anairis, "A Life-Course Approach to Gender Differences in Work Outcomes and Occupational Mobility in Mexico: The Role of Migration" (2023). Sociology Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:wfsqzbum/

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