This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater … economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed … segregation where women have limited access to high wage occupations. This paper first defines a class of segregation indexes that …

We examine the residential segregation of workers and the unemployed in the 80 largest cities in Germany. Drawing on a … unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a strong and persistent rise in segregation between workers and the unemployed … rise of segregation was characterized by a third phenomenon: a trend towards "localization", i.e., a tendency of workers …