U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020

Michael Lachanski

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.11

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 1 224-246

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.11

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Lachanski, Michael. 2025. “U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(1): 224–46. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.11. The author gratefully acknowledges funding from NIH T32 HD007242 grant, the Institute of Education Sciences under PR/Award #3505B200035, IPUMS-INDIRA 2022, the International Max Planck Research School for Population Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS), and the 2023 Otto Pollak Fund while working on this research. This project would not have been possible without considerable guidance from Sam Preston. The author received helpful comments from Xi Song, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Irma Elo, Michel Guillot, David Neumark, Manuelita Ureta, Eugenio Paglino, Rehana Odendaal, Andres Villatoro, Joyce Kim, Wendy Roth, Herb Smith, Michael Cline, Emilio Parrado, Jonah Davids, Rebecca Johnson, Phyllis Moen, Julie Cai, Tim Riffe, Jennie Brand, Tom VanHeuvelen, Eddie Hunsinger, Fabio Rojas, Minjae Kim, Byungkyu Lee, Xavier St-Denis, Ivan Williams, Jose Monteiro Da Silva, Masoud Movahed, Bob Schoen, Michael Davis, Jere Behrman, Erlend Fleisje, and participants at the IPUMS NDIRA 2022 conference, the 2023 IMPRS-PHDS Annual Academy, the 2023 Russell Sage Foundation Conference on the 2020 Census, the 2023 ASA Annual Conference, and the Rationality and Society Committee of the ASA. Editors Zhenchao Qian and Trevon Logan gave detailed feedback that substantially improved the article. Jikai “Kyrie” Yang provided great research assistance. Three anonymous reviewers also gave helpful suggestions on an earlier draft. Direct correspondence to: Michael Lachanski, at mikelach@sas.upenn.edu, Population Studies Center, 3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.