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Rachel E. Dwyer
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Social inequality, urban sociology, work and occupations, economic sociology. Current research focuses on contemporary patterns of suburban development, the relationship between residential segregation and metropolitan growth, spatial segregation of the affluent, and the quality and determinants of employment growth.
Recent Publications:
- Dwyer, Rachel E. Forthcoming. “Cohort Succession in the US Housing Market: New Houses, the Baby Boom, and Income Stratification.” Population Research and Policy Review.
- Dwyer, Rachel E. 2007. “Expanding Homes and Increasing Inequalities: US Housing Development and the Residential Segregation of the Affluent.” Social Problems 54: 23-46.
- Dwyer, Rachel E. 2006. “Redlining.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishing.
- Dwyer, Rachel E. 2004. “Downward Earnings Mobility after Voluntary Employer Exits.” Work and Occupations. Vol. 31: 111-139.
- Wright, Erik Olin and Rachel E. Dwyer. 2003. “The Pattern of Job Expansions in the United States: A Comparison of the 1960s and 1990s.” Socio-Economic Review. Vol 1: 289-325.
- Reprinted in Institutions and Working Life. 2006. Editors Geoffrey Wood and Phil James. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Milkman, Ruth and Rachel E. Dwyer. 2002. “Growing Apart: The ‘New Economy’ and Job Polarization in California, 1992-2000.” Pp. 3-35 in The State of California Labor. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.)
