abstract: 'Using the 2004 and 2008 panels of the Survey for Income and Program

  Participation (SIPP), we examine whether the heavily feminized health

  care industry produces ``good jobs{''''} for workers without a college

  degree as compared to other major industries. For women, we find that

  jobs in the health care industry are significantly more likely than the

  food service and retail industries to provide wages above \$15 per hour,

  health benefits, fulltime hours, and job security. Jobs in the health

  care industry are not ``good jobs{''''} for low- and middle-skill men in

  terms of wages, relative to the industries of construction and

  manufacturing, but health care jobs can provide men with greater job

  security, and in comparison to construction, a higher probability of

  employer-based health insurance. That said, the findings emphasize that

  because men and women are differentially distributed across industries,

  access to different forms of job quality is also gendered across

  industries, with important implications for gender dynamics and economic

  strain within working class families.'
affiliation: 'Dill, J (Corresponding Author), Univ Minnesota, Div Hlth Policy \& Management,
  Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.

  Dill, Janette, Univ Minnesota, Div Hlth Policy \& Management, Minneapolis, MN 55455
  USA.

  Hodges, Melissa J., Villanova Univ, Dept Sociol \& Criminol, Villanova, PA 19085
  USA.'
article-number: '102350'
author: Dill, Janette and Hodges, Melissa J.
author-email: dill02221@umn.edu
author_list:
- family: Dill
  given: Janette
- family: Hodges
  given: Melissa J.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102350
eissn: 1096-0317
files: []
issn: 0049-089X
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
keywords: Low-wage work; Health care workforce; Feminized occupations; Job quality
keywords-plus: 'BAD JOBS; EARNINGS INEQUALITY; LABOR; OCCUPATIONS; POLARIZATION;

  ESCALATOR; WORKFORCE; WAGES; PAY; SEGREGATION'
language: English
month: NOV
number-of-cited-references: '84'
orcid-numbers: Dill, Janette/0000-0002-4044-3127
papis_id: 89152a9914c07e1434417b97b038ed35
ref: Dill2019ishealthcare
researcherid-numbers: 'Dill, Janette/Q-7408-2017

  '
times-cited: '9'
title: 'Is healthcare the new manufacturing?: Industry, gender, and ``good jobs″ for
  low- and middle-skill workers'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000495146500013
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '11'
volume: '84'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2019'