En los últimos años la economía está viviendo un proceso de globalización que afecta a muchos ámbitos. En el presente trabajo se discuten las repercusiones que dicho fenómeno puede tener sobre las ciudades. En este sentido, se presentan las aportaciones de la Nueva Geografía Económica...

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...

This paper proposes a theoretical framework in which to study the segregation of a target group in a multigroup context, which can be labeled as local segregation. In doing so, this paper first presents an axiomatic set-up within which local segregation measures can be evaluated and it defines...

This paper defines local segregation measures which are sensible to status differences among organizational units. So far as we know, this is the first time that status-sensitive segregation measures are offered in a multigroup context by invoking a cardinal measure of status. These measures...

The aim of this paper is to study occupational segregation by gender in Spain, which is a country where occupational segregation explains a large part of the gender wage gap. As opposed to previous studies, this paper measures not only overall segregation, but also the segregation of several...

This paper reflects about the invariance property that regional economics is implicitly assuming when “relative” inequality measures, such as the Gini index, are used to quantify the geographic concentration of economic activity. In addition, it proposes a new concentration measure that is...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it shows the properties that regional economics is implicitly assuming when “relative” inequality measures, such as the Gini coefficient and the generalized entropy family of indexes, are used to quantify the geographic concentration of economic...

En este trabajo se muestran las diferencias entre mujeres y hombres en el mercado de trabajo español, centrando el interés en las brechas existentes en términos de salarios y tasas de desempleo, y se ofrece una reflexión desde la teoría económica sobre el por qué de dichas diferencias....