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different jobs; and the use of samples of workers prevents any reliable determination of either the extent of segregation or the … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and … one fifth from job segregation. We also show that the widely documented glass ceiling effect operates mainly through …
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Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has … neighbourhoods but is unable to do so will contribute to a better understanding of the drivers of segregation, especially in the … context of the debate on voluntary segregation versus segregation due to a lack of choice. We find that ethnic minority groups …
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This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three …
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In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
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This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater … economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed … segregation where women have limited access to high wage occupations. This paper first defines a class of segregation indexes that …
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
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. Moreover, except for Italy, they point to a persisting problem of occupational and sectoral segregation between men working …
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segregation predicted by the models (and embodied in the context of race), Americans live in economically diverse neighborhoods … segregation: income mixing appears to be unstable, although the adjustment process is slow. This work is of especial importance …
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workplace and occupational segregation as partial explanations of the earnings gap is presented. Having allowed also for … relative unimportance of occupational segregation and the large remaining gender earnings gap suggest that stronger enforcement …
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there is some evidence of workplace segregation in the private sector, there is little indication that rates of return vary …
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