%0 Journal Article
%T Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment           Segregation
%A John-Paul Ferguson
%A Rembrand Koning
%J American Sociological Review
%@ 1939-8271
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0003122418767438
%X Racial segregation between U.S. workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase happened alongside declines in within-establishment occupational segregation, on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate between- and within-establishment trends in racial employment segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within-establishment processes, but rather stems from differences in the turnover rates of more and less homogeneous workplaces. Present research on employment segregation focuses mainly on within-firm processes. By doing so, scholars may be overstating the country¡¯s progress on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further integrating firms
%K segregation
%K employment
%K organizations
%K race
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122418767438