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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

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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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

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

gender in the US by comparing the distribution of any demographic group with the employment structure of the economy. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782823

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

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

This paper provides a unique analysis of the evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil from … time period than has previously been possible. Second, the analysis explores both gender and racial segregation side by … occupational segregation. The paper presents three major findings: first, gender segregation is always considerably greater than …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878117

Gender, education and reciprocal generosity: Evidence from 1,500 experiment subjects

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Cárdenas, Juan C.; Rossi, Máximo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

gender bias. This paper provides new evidence on this topic using a unique experimental dataset. We used data from a field …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967202

Occupational segregation of immigrant women in Spain

Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

The aim of this paper is to analyze occupational segregation in the Spanish labor market from a gender and an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516751

Occupational and industrial segregation of female and male workers in Spain: An alternative approach

Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561863

Poverty and Women’s Labor Market Activity: the Role of Gender Wage Discrimination in the EU

Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga; Río, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413382

An alternative proposal for measuring occupational segregation

Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413386