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developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU … removed. Using this new wage distribution, we compute total household income and compare poverty rates in the absence of …The functioning of the labor market often has been stressed as a clear determinant in explaining poverty trends in …
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only for academics but also for institutions concerned with inequalities related to gender, race, ethnicity, and migration …
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This paper provides a unique analysis of the evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil from … 1987-2006. Drawing on a novel dataset, constructed by harmonizing national household data over twenty years, the paper … time period than has previously been possible. Second, the analysis explores both gender and racial segregation side by …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze occupational segregation in the Spanish labor market from a gender and an …
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This paper offers a general framework in which to study the occupational segregation of a target group when involving a categorization of individuals in two or more groups. For this purpose, it proposes to compare the distribution of the target group against the distribution of total employment...
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researchers rely on different group measures of inequality. Inequality by gender, household, class, and ethnicity may produce …
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Based on harmonized and detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pair-wise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women dramatically declined from 1940 to 1980 (especially in the 1960s and 1970s), it...
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gender in the US by comparing the distribution of any demographic group with the employment structure of the economy. The …
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This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
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This paper aims to analyze occupational and industrial segregation in the Spanish labor market by using the alternative tools proposed by Alonso-Villar and Del Río (2007), along with some new extensions put forward here. In particular, two decompositions of their segregation curves are...
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