Scrutinizing Organizational Inequalities: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

Friday, June 24, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


TH14-01
Inequality Generating Processes
Scrutinizing Organizational Inequalities: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches


Participants:
Framing Work Injury and Sickness in a Changing Welfare State: A Closer look at Organizational Inequalities within the Public Sector
Antoinette Hetzler, Lund University
Corporate Clients and the Progress of Women in U.S. Law Firms
Fiona Kay, Queen's University; Elizabeth Gorman, University of Virginia
Do Blacks Benefit from Social Networks? An Audit Study
Gokce Basbug, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Redefining Diversity: Practice Theorization and Legitimation As Local Processes
Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


TH14-02
Relational Inequalities
Scrutinizing Organizational Inequalities: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches


Participants:
Workplace Wage Inequality in the Netherlands: Gender, Education, and Flexibility
Zoltan Lippenyi, Utrecht University
Embedded Inequality: The Case of Gender Pay Gap in Postsocialist Slovenia
Nina Bandelj, University of California, Irvine; Joseph King, University of California, Irvine; Andrew Penner, UC Irvine; Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrcela, University of Ljubljana
Gender Equity and Rising Inequality: You Can't Get There from Here
Kevin Leicht, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Theorizing Organizational Inequality: Workplace Culture and Intersectionality in Two Worker Cooperatives
Joan Meyers, University of the Pacific; Steven P. Vallas, Northeastern University

2:30 PM-4:00 PM


TH14-03
Neoliberal and Shareholder Value Ideologies and Organizational Change
Scrutinizing Organizational Inequalities: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches


Participants:
Structural Constraint or Strategic Choice: Partisan Politics and Implementation of Corporate Downsizing in U.S. States
Jiwook Jung, National University of Singapore
Shareholder Value, Ownership Form, and the Transformation of U.S. for-profit Colleges Since 1997
Charlie Eaton, UC Berkeley Department of Sociology
"Choose the Plan That's Right for You": Individuation, Risk, and Social Stratification in U.S. Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Adam Goldstein, Harvard University

Saturday, June 25, 2016

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10:45 AM-12:15 PM


TH14-04
Immigrant Incorporation
Scrutinizing Organizational Inequalities: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches


Participants:
First and second generation immigrant earnings in Germany: A relational inequality approach
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts; Peter Jacobebbinghaus, Bielefeld University and IAB; Silvia Maja Melzer, Universitat Bielefeld; Reinhard Schunck, Universitat Bielefeld
Bifurcated Incorporation and Social Mobility in Japan
Tristan Ivory, Indiana University
Working Hours of Migrants in Austria and UK. a Cohort Analysis
Julian Winterheller, University of Graz; Renate Ortlieb, University of Graz

2:30 PM-4:00 PM


TH14-05
First Results from COIN (Comparative Organizations and Inequality Network)
Scrutinizing Organizational Inequalities: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches


Participants:
Evolution of Work Segregation in Firms and Its Consequence on Wage Inequality
Olivier Godechot, Sciences Po, MaxPo and CNRS
Precarity As Volatility: The Impact of Employment Volatility on Inequalities
Eunmi Mun, Amherst College; Jiwook Jung, National University of Singapore; Zoltan Lippenyi, Utrecht University; William Rainey, UMASS-Amherst
The Organizational Production of National Earnings Inequalities
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts