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Why Do Black Men Suffer from Low Self‐Rated Job Productivity? A Multi‐Theory Approach *
Author(s) -
Yang Song,
Morimoto Shauna A.
Publication year - 2011
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.2011.00388.x
Subject(s) - closeness , productivity , race (biology) , context (archaeology) , closure (psychology) , human capital , psychology , social capital , social psychology , demographic economics , sociology , economics , gender studies , geography , social science , economic growth , market economy , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology
This article uses data from a national representative employer–employee matched dataset to assess the race/sex disparity in workers’ self‐rated productivity levels. Findings show that a significant proportion of black men report that they cannot achieve high job productivity. We conduct regression analyses based on human capital, social closure, and social psychological models to identify the specific mechanisms that account for black men’s low self‐rated job productivity. We find that social psychological work relational issues such as closeness of supervision and job evaluation explain the race/sex disparity in self‐rated productivity. Findings are considered in the context of emergent intersections of race and gender in accounting for disparities in workplace outcomes.