This paper provides descriptive evidence for declining occupational sex segregation on the German labor market …, especially concerning the regional differences between the former East and West Germany. I use segregation measures and long …-run social security data for the decade of 1992 to 2004. While segregation has declined over time, it remains higher for the …

We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent …, provided that social segregation is sufficiently great, (ii) there is threshold level of integration above which group … acquiring human capital can expand the range over which reducing segregation can be Pareto-improving. JEL Categories: D31, Z13 …

empirically wage differentials in Brazil. Last, we compute standard segregation and isolation measures to show the trends in the …

. Moreover, except for Italy, they point to a persisting problem of occupational and sectoral segregation between men working …

among three factors: the extent of segregation in social networks, the strength of interpersonal spillovers in human capital … accumu- lation, and the responsiveness of relative wages to the skill composition in production. Social segregation is … segregation su¢ ciently great. We also show that if an initially disadvantaged group is su¢ ciently small, integration above a …