More than 'mutual information': educational and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction on the Flemish labour market

Tom van Puyenbroeck, Karolien De Bruyne () and Luc Sels ()

Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven

Abstract: We build on the Information Theory foundations of the Mutual Information Index of Segregation [Mora and Ruiz-Castillo, 2003; Frankel and Volij, 2007] to analyze two horizontal dimensions of gender segregation on the labour market. We provide a novel, three-way additive decomposition of their effects on overall segregation. Using survey data from 41,712 Flemish employees, we .find that choice of study field has a larger effect on overall segregation than sectoral choice. Their mutual interaction is negative, indicating that sectoral segregation, although low, is still partly explained by educational choices.

Date: 2010-09
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Journal Article: More than ‘Mutual Information’: Educational and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction on the Flemish labor market (2012)
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