Kim A. Weeden’s research while affiliated with Cornell University and other places

... heavy lifting) hazards (Lipscomb et al., 2006;Krieger et al., 2008Krieger et al., , 2011Sabbath et al., 2013;Baron et al., 2014). Moreover, social science and occupational health research documents the utility of latent class analysis (LCA) for identifying how diverse workplace exposures may cluster in relation to workplace context and job characteristics, both between and within designated occupational categories (Evans and Mills, 1998;Notelaers et al., 2006;Grusky and Weeden, 2007;Byon et al., 2017;Santos et al., 2017;Christensen et al., 2018;Magee et al., 2019;Peckham et al., 2019). At the same time, fierce debates concern how to balance theoretical interpretability and empirical criteria in latent class model-building DiMaggio, 2016, 2022;Eger and Hjerm, 2022). ...

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A Novel Use of Latent Class Analysis to Identify Patterns of Workplace Hazards among Informally Employed Domestic Workers in 14 Cities, United States, 2011-2012

... In recent decades, microclass theorists have argued that big "aggregate" classes should be disaggregated to focus on processes at an occupational level Grusky and Weeden, 2002;Weeden and Grusky, 2005). They claim that occupational organizations are central in securing economic resources for their members and that closure most often occurs at an occupational level. ...

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Siblings’ outcomes and social mobility: Educational attainment, occupations, and class destinations