Abstract
This article explores the unintended gendered consequences of employment protection and vocational training systems. It develops a micrologic of skill investment by workers and employers to identify the mechanism by which specific skills become disadvantageous for women. The central claim of the article is that institutions that encourage male investment in specific skills exacerbate occupational sex segregation. The article finds that coordinated market economies, because of their robust institutional protection of male skill investments, are generally more sex segregating than are liberal market economies. The empirical section provides cross-sectional analyses of advanced industrial countries.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 142-175 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| Journal | World Politics |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
- Political Science and International Relations