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The Wages of Aging: Time‐Related Determinants of Earnings in the Southern Textile Industry *
Author(s) -
Leiter Jeffrey
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1994.tb01090.x
Subject(s) - operationalization , earnings , context (archaeology) , labour economics , textile , wage , textile industry , economics , interpretation (philosophy) , political science , accounting , computer science , history , paleontology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , law , biology , programming language
The author distinguishes three time‐related worker characteristics: physical facility, skill, and firm attachment. In an analysis of wage determination for a sample of textile production workers physical facility and firm attachment, but not skill, had significant curvilinear effects, These, along with exogenous effects of gender and race and endogenous effects of assignments to machine maintenance and to a weave room, are interpreted as reflecting power relations in the contemporary context of the southern textile labor process and labor market. The analysis emphasizes the critical importance of contextual considerations in operationalization, specification, and interpretation for wage determination studies.