Are Front-line Service Occupations Transitional or Dead-end? The Case of Waiters and Waitresses Public Deposited
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- March 20, 2019
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King, Lindsey M.
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
- Abstract
- Two streams of literature portray waiting tables as either transitional or dead-end. The flexibility of serving jobs enables students to combine work and school, yet the lack of mobility opportunities means most movement is lateral, from one service occupation to another. Using matched CPS data, this paper employs logistic regression to analyze movement out of serving and into another service occupation, an unrelated occupation, or unemployment. While gender is related to lateral mobility, it fails to predict movement into unrelated occupations or unemployment. Education, conversely, has little influence on lateral mobility, but influences movement into unrelated occupations or unemployment.
- Date of publication
- May 2007
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Kalleberg, Arne
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- Open access
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