Arvidsson M, Collet F, Hedström P
The Institute for Analytical Sociology, Department of Management and Engineering, Linkoping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden.
People Management and Organisation Department, ESADE, Ramon Llull University, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Sci Adv. 2021 Apr 16;7(16). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6730. Print 2021 Apr.
The segregation of labor markets along ethnic and gender lines is socially highly consequential, and the social science literature has long viewed homophily and network-based job recruitments as some of its most crucial drivers. Here, we focus on a previously unidentified mechanism, the Trojan-horse mechanism, which, in contradiction to the main tenet of previous research, suggests that network-based recruitment reduce rather than increase segregation levels. We identify the conditions under which networks are desegregating, and using unique data on all individuals and all workplaces located in the Stockholm region during the years 2000-2017, we find strong empirical evidence for the Trojan-horse mechanism and its role in the gender segregation of labor markets.
劳动力市场按种族和性别划分在社会层面具有重大影响，长期以来，社会科学文献一直将同质性和基于人际关系网络的工作招聘视为其最关键的驱动因素。在此，我们关注一种此前未被识别的机制——特洛伊木马机制，这一机制与先前研究的主要观点相悖，它表明基于人际关系网络的招聘降低而非提高了隔离程度。我们确定了人际关系网络实现去隔离化的条件，并利用2000年至2017年期间斯德哥尔摩地区所有个人和所有工作场所的独特数据，找到了支持特洛伊木马机制及其在劳动力市场性别隔离中作用的有力实证证据。
