Occupational segregation of immigrant women in Spain

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

No 165, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze occupational segregation in the Spanish labor market from a gender and an immigration perspective. In doing so, several local and overall segregation measures are used. Our results suggest that immigrant women in Spain suffer a double segregation since segregation affects them to a greater extent than it does either native women or immigrant men. There are, however, remarkable discrepancies among the segregation of immigrant women depending on their region of origin. Thus, immigrant women from the European Union (EU) have the lowest occupational segregation, while segregation seems particularly intense in the group of women from European countries outside the EU bloc and Asia (the levels of which are higher than that of Latin American and African women).

Keywords: immigration; gender; occupational segregation; local segregation; overall segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2010
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-ltv and nep-mig
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