The purpose of this paper is to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of several intermediate inequality measures, paying special attention to whether inequality rankings between income distributions are affected by the monetary units in which incomes are expressed.

A<sc>lonso</sc>-V<sc>illar</sc> O. and D<sc>el</sc> R<sc>ío</sc> C. Geographical concentration of unemployment: a male-female comparison in Spain, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The aim of this paper is to analyse gender differences in the spatial distribution of unemployment. Specifically, it is explored whether agglomeration can influence...

<title>Abstract</title> This contribution analyzes occupational segregation during a period of high employment in the Spanish labor market by gender and immigrant status, using several local and overall segregation measures. Using data from Spain's 2007 Economically Active Population Survey (<italic>Encuesta de...</italic>

<title>Abstract</title> This paper first reflects on the concentration invariance property that regional economics implicitly assumes when the locational Gini index and the generalized entropy family of concentration indexes are used. Second, it suggests that apart from these indexes, concentration measures...

This paper extends recent local segregation measures by incorporating status differences across occupations. These new measures are intended to be used to assess, from a normative point of view, the segregation of a target group. They seem appropriate to complement, rather than substitute, other...

By using data from the American Community Survey, this paper studies occupational segregation by ethnicity/race and gender in the US by comparing the distribution of any demographic group with the employment structure of the economy. The analysis shows that occupational segregation is...

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...

A<sc>lonso</sc>-V<sc>illar</sc> O. and <sc>del</sc> R<sc>ío</sc> C. Concentration of economic activity: an analytical framework, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The goal of this paper is to offer an analytical framework within which <italic>relative</italic> concentration, including both the concentration of each sector and aggregate concentration, can be...