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Chapter 2 Occupational Segregation Measures: A Role for Status

Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber

ISBN: 978-1-78190-170-0, eISBN: 978-1-78190-171-7

Publication date: 23 August 2012

Abstract

This paper defines local segregation measures that are sensitive to status differences among organizational units. So far as we know, this is the first time that status-sensitive segregation measures have been offered in a multigroup context with a cardinal measure of status. These measures allow researchers to aggregate employment gaps of a target group by penalizing its concentration in low-status occupations. They are intended to complement rather than substitute for previous local segregation measures. The usefulness of these tools is illustrated in the case of occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the United States.

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del Río, C. and Alonso-Villar, O. (2012), "Chapter 2 Occupational Segregation Measures: A Role for Status", Bishop, J.A. and Salas, R. (Ed.) Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 37-62. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-2585(2012)0000020005

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