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Essay on The Lack of the Minority Hiring Of Minority Head Football
Hiring in occupations has been studied from various perspectives. Broadly speaking, there are three general approaches: the career or work history approach; the human capital approach; and the status attainment approach. Often these three overlap, differing only in the types of variables used to account for hiring. Also the three share an emphasis on the individual, usually to the exclusion of factors other than those earned or inherited.
These various approaches have been criticized for a lack of attention to the structural labor hiring constraints placed upon hiring (e.g., McClendon; Spilerman). That media role-plays produce differences in income has been clearly documented by Stolzenberg. However, research tying media role-play structure directly to hiring is relatively rare. Spilerman has placed the career perspective in the context of media role-plays in his analysis of career lines. Grandjean incorporates career and human capital variables in his analysis of income and occupational attainment in the U.S. Civil Service media role-play. Still, the understanding of the effects of market structure on hiring is limited.
It is therefore of particular interest to make an empirical comparison of career/human capital approaches to hiring with structural approaches. Many works in the structural tradition are theoretical discussions (Horan; Spilerman); others are empirical studies for which there are no equivalent works from the nonstructuralist position. In this article we shall take a particular media role-play that of minority head football coaches and analyze it using a well-understood structural model, White's vacancy chain model. Since Loy and Sage have written a sound analysis of hiring in this occupation from the nonstructuralist perspective, our analysis here permits a comparison of the two approaches.
This comparative study of the impact of structure on hiring bears directly on another major issue in media role-play studies, the existence of segmentation. The minority media role-play has been viewed as partitioned into primary and secondary jobs......
