Lisa Catanzarite
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford, 1990
Areas of Research Interest:
Social Inequality, Labor Markets & Work, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration.
Current Research Interests:
My research centers on gender and racial/ethnic stratification, with a specialization in labor market inequality and poverty. One thrust concerns general processes that operate across gender and racial/ethnic groups. Another special concentration is research on Latinos, with attention to key differences between immigrant and native Latinos. My work generally focuses at the macro level on institutional features of markets or on macro-micro links between market structures and individual inequality. Much of my research concerns occupational and job segregation and addresses processes of change in occupations, illuminating (1) pay erosion over time in women's and minorities' occupational ghettos; (2) shifts in occupations' demographic composition; (3) segregation of immigrant Latinos in what I term "brown-collar" fields; and (4) wage consequences of segregation for both immigrant Latinos and native workers. Other research explores structural contributors to poverty among women of different racial/ethnic/immigrant groups, focusing on both labor market and marriage market conditions.
Selected Publications:
Catanzarite, Lisa. "Occupational Context and Wage Competition of New Immigrant Latinos with Minorities and Whites." Review of Black Political Economy. 31 (1-2). August 2004. Reprinted as pp. 59-76 in Steven Shulman (Ed.) The Impact of Immigration on African Americans, Transaction. August 2004.
Catanzarite, Lisa, "Race-Gender Composition and Occupational Pay Degradation." Social Problems. V. 50, n.1, February 2003.
Catanzarite, Lisa, "The Dynamics of Segregation and Earnings in Brown-Collar Occupations." Work and Occupations. v. 29, n.3, pp. 300-345. August 2002.
Catanzarite, Lisa and Michael Aguilera. "Working with Co-Ethnics: Earnings Penalties for Latino Immigrants at Latino Jobsites." Social Problems. v.49, n.1, pp.101-27. February 2002
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