Search Results - subject:"Segregation measures"

del Río, Coral; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2015

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...

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Local Segregation and Well-being

Rio, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

This paper proposes an index that quantifies the well-being (ill-being) of a target group as associated with its occupational segregation: that is, it assesses the gains/losses of that group which are derived from its underrepresentation in some occupations and overrepresentation in others. This...

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The occupational segregation of Black women in the United States: A look at its evolution from 1940 to 2010

Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

Based on harmonized and detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pair-wise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women dramatically declined from 1940 to 1980 (especially in the 1960s and 1970s), it...

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Occupational Segregation Measures: A Role for Status

del Río, Coral; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2011

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 … concentration in low-status occupations. They are intended to complement, rather than substitute, previous local segregation …

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Occupational segregation measures: A role for status

Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

This paper extends recent local segregation measures by incorporating status differences across occupations. These new …

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Racial Inequality and Segregation Measures: Some Evidence from the 2000 Census

Somanathan, Rohini; Sethi, Rajiv - eSocialSciences - 2009

residential segregation. The authors adopt an approach to the decomposition of segregation measures that combines the method of …

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Geographic Concentration of Economic Activity: An aggregate index

Alonso-Villar, Olga; del Río, Coral - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2009

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...

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