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....

Based on detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pairwise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women declined dramatically in 1940-1980, decreased slightly in 1980-2000, and remained stagnant in...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es doble: en primer lugar, mostrar la utilidad de las medidas de desigualdad intermedia en el análisis de la distribución de la renta; y, en segundo lugar, presentar las ventajas e inconvenientes de los índices intermedios existentes, de acuerdo con las...

This paper first proposes a measure, the mutual information index derived from the information theory, to quantify overall concentration from an axiomatic perspective. The analysis reveals that this overall concentration measure can be written as the weighed sum of the Theil index for each...

This paper proposes a framework in which to study the segregation of a target group in a multigroup context, according either to an evenness perception or to a representativeness view of segregation, and offers a bridge between local segregation and overall segregation. In doing so, this paper...

En este trabajo se analiza la distribución espacial del desempleo en España explotando la información disponible a nivel municipal. Con este objetivo, se utilizan procedimientos empíricos de la literatura de geografía económica y distribución de la renta que nos permiten estudiar la...

This paper deals with the quantification of the well-being loss/gain of a demographic group associated with its occupational segregation, an issue that, as far as we know, has not been formally tackled in the literature. For this purpose, this paper proposes several properties to take into...

The aim of this paper is to study segregation in the Spanish labor market for both male and female workers, paying special attention to industrial segregation. As opposed to other studies, this article quantifies the segregation of each demographic group separately, rather than measuring overall...