Wage-Attainment Processes: The Retail Clerk Case

Abstract

Status-attainment and organizations literatures are integrated to develop a model of intraoccupational wage attainment using opensystems theory of organizations to specify structural parameters of the wage-attainment process. We analyze the effects of personal characteristics and organization structure on wages of retail clerks within one labor market. While sex and marital status show wage effects in dependent of work context, the data support our contention that work rountinization and organization dependence on environmental segments determine to a significant degree wage variation at the occupational level. Findings of sex segregation across and within firms and substantial interaction in the effects of sex and organizational variables on wages further specify the relationship among personal characteristics, organization structure, and wages. Our research suggests that organizational contexts influence wages independently of individual characteristics and of labor market factors and tha the inclusion of organization parameters in status-attainment models will prove-fruitful.

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