Apartheid explains the reduction in the racial poverty differential. …

The aim of this paper is twofold: a) To explore the evolution of occupational segregation of women and men of different … racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. during the period 1940-2010; and b) to assess the consequences of segregation for each of … group, derived from its segregation, as a proportion of the average wage of the economy. Our index seems a helpful tool not …

it comparatively worrisome; second, while occupational segregation is declining by both gender and race, the decline has …This paper provides a unique analysis of the evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil from … provides extensive new insights in the nature and evolution of occupational segregation over time, while also providing …

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 … is that, apart from quantifying the extent of segregation it also assesses the consequences of that segregation taking …

By using data from the American Community Survey, this paper studies occupational segregation by ethnicity/race and … analysis shows that occupational segregation is particularly intense in the Hispanic and Asian population groups, even though … Hispanic and Asian segregation. The analysis also reveals that the differential between women and men is not reduced after …

among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women dramatically declined from 1940 … first decade of the 21st century. To assess the reduction in segregation, this paper extends recent measures that penalize … college or university degrees have lower segregation (as compared with their peers) than those with lower education …

Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity … across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels … in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation conditioned on the distribution of characteristics reveals that segregation …

The goal of this study was to use census information to measure the level of occupational segregation of workers of … African descent compared to whites in various Latin American countries. I further investigated the extent to which segregation …-Latinos are generally highly segregated across occupations. However, while a large proportion of this segregation would not exist …