Labor market segmentation is a concentration of a people in certain job with skills and experience in the field that are not easily transferred to another job. Labor segmentation can be distinctive to ethnicity, race, …show more content…
jobs in restaurants, hospitals, picking fruit etc. This drives market segmentation as many employers overlook the formal hiring process, hiring immigrants for low wage jobs and allow the employees in undesirable jobs to refer their finds and family which keeps a study pool of employees in low wage jobs market full, thus in turn drives the unemployment of blacks as many of the lower wage jobs are taken by immigrants’ who as the article asserts favor their fellow immigrant friends and family as hires for new job openings. With the formal hiring process not being used many employers lose control of the hiring process as employees refer friends and family which employers’ don’t mind because it assures the right person for the job as many employees only refer people that will make them look good, so the employer feels comfortable with hiring referral. Employers are only able to regain control of hiring process from the strong hiring networks by reinstituting the formal hiring process of application and interviewing applicants. The formal hiring process is one situation where blacks may have a chance at being …show more content…
Due to a nursing shortage many nurses were brought over from the Philippines to fill the nursing gap. Over the past few years many of those Filipinos have promoted to director of nursing jobs giving them the power to have a say so in referring others for new job openings usually for less pay, favoring their own race many new hires where Filipinos for cooking job, other service and nursing job. locking many demanding natives born African Americans and even some whites out of nursing jobs as employers allowed people referring other less demanding hard working people like themselves to take control of the hiring process. The employer slowly lost control of who’s being hired. Thus you have this huge saturation of Filipinos through social networking working at many