Labor Market Segmentation African Americans

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Labor market segmentation is a concentration of a race in certain job with skills and experience in the field that are not easily transferred to another job. Labor segmentation can be distinctive to ethnicity, race, immigrant status, gender as well as parental status, e.g most nurses are female and most goes housekeepers and maids in hotels and hospitals are hispanics. Segmentation is usually premised on disirable vs undesirable jobs, . With stereotypes playing a strong role as employers see Hispanics and Asians as hard working and less demanding while blacks especially native born blacks as not hard working , demanding, affirmative action hires that aren't qualified for the job. Stereotypes I feel Asians and Hispanics with hiring power …show more content…
. So not only are immigrants taking less desirable jobs, if they find themselves in manga net positions they have the power to take desirable jobs from African Ameican and some whites as well. as favoritism is very dominant in today’s hiring, and with with employers favoring more immigrants who will work hard for less, and they inturn refer others who will also work for less with about many demands and as those employees become or supervisory options where they have the power to hire many black fin themselves locked out of being hired as immigrants favor other immigrants being refereed as a more favored hire. In how the other half works the author suggests One way of combating the power of labor networks I an employers return to the more formal hiring process of application completion and interviewing applicants which is less inclusionary then powerful hiring networks. As mentioned in the book how the other have works it not always finding ones kind but the right kind of worker for the job. As many whites, Asians and blacks don't want jobs in housekeeping at hotels and bussing tables at restaurants and doing landscaping these fields have become segmented and dominated by Hispanics due to hiring networks as Hispanics refer one another for these un desirable jobs. Thus blacks find themselves even futher locked out of event low paying fast food restaurant, housekeeping, landscaping and construction jobs as employers seeking the right kind of employee now favor Hispanics for such jobs over