An alternative proposal for measuring occupational segregation

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

No 82, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This paper offers a general framework in which to study the occupational segregation of a target group when involving a categorization of individuals in two or more groups. For this purpose, it proposes to compare the distribution of the target group against the distribution of total employment across occupations. In doing so, this paper first presents an axiomatic set-up within which segregation measures can be evaluated and defines an alternative segregation curve. Next, a class of additive segregation indexes, related to the generalized entropy family and consistent with the above curves, is characterized. Finally, decompositions of these measures by subgroups of occupations and by subgroups of individuals are proposed.

Keywords: Occupational segregation; Segregation curves; Inequality measures; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 J16 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2007
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