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Occupations in Information Technology Report
This report uses statistics from Decennial Censuses and the American Community Survey to explore trends and characteristics of IT workers and describes the growth and increasing complexity of the information technology workforce in the U.S. during the past half century.
The Occupational Attainment of Mid-Career Childless Women, 1980-2012
Although the "motherhood penalty" is well-documented (Kahn, Garcia-Manglano, Bianchi, 2014), less is known about the extent to which there is a non-mother "bonus." In this paper, the Census Bureau examines the labor market outcomes of childless women, focusing on occupational attainment over time. Research suggests that childless women are more highly represented in management positions than are mothers, perhaps as a result of having more time to invest in their careers (Amuedo-Dorantes & Kimmel, 2005). The authors examine whether this effect extends to employment as a whole, and whether similar patterns can be seen for other occupations. The authors also examine changes over time to further explain differences in occupational attainment between mothers and childless women.
In 1950, the majority of STEM workers were native-born and White. Its overall composition shifted because of major immigration policy changes in 1965 attracting foreign-born STEM workers, the Immigration Act of 1990 expanding the cap on employment-based visas, and the U.S. economy booming due to growth of information technology. Altogether, these factors increased the number of foreign-born skilled workers that arrived to the United States. As of the 2010-2014 period, the foreign-born STEM workforce in the United States comprised 1.6 million workers and were 22 percent of the total STEM workforce. This poster presentation uses United States employment data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey (ACS) to examine the STEM workforce by comparing the characteristics of the foreign-born workforce relative to the native workforce. It also explores in detail the foreign-born STEM workforce by occupational groups and by racial and ethnic characteristics.
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