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Poverty among minorities in the United States: Explaining the racial poverty gap for Blacks and Latinos
Gradin, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among minorities are, however, the result of different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413429
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Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366282
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The occupational segregation of Black women in the United States: A look at its evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
. Regarding the role that education has played, this study highlights that only from 1990 onward, Black women with either some … college or university degrees have lower segregation (as compared with their peers) than those with lower education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711919
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S.: Differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171658
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The extent of occupational segregation in the US: Differences by race, ethnicity, and gender
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Río, Coral del; Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
By using data from the American Community Survey, this paper studies occupational segregation by ethnicity/race and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782823
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US: Differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789858
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The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the U.S., 1940-2010: The Gains and Losses of Gender-Race/Ethnicity Groups
Rio, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
only for academics but also for institutions concerned with inequalities related to gender, race, ethnicity, and migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878109
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The Evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil - 1987 to 2006: Differences between formal and non-formal labour markets
Salardi, Paola - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
it comparatively worrisome; second, while occupational segregation is declining by both gender and race, the decline has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878117
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163079