Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic

Juan Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso and Juan F Jimeno

No 524, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU countries vis-à-vis the US. Given the lack of long time-series data on homogeneous LFS data about occupations and educational attainments for male and female workers in EU countries, we use a single cross section corresponding to 1999 as the basis of comparison, hoping to uncover convergence trends by examining whether the EU-Us differentials in gender occupational segregation decline across age cohorts. The main findings of our study are: (i) gender segregation has been declining across age cohorts in the case of female graduates and has remained steady for those with lower educational levels; in particular, the level of segregation for the former group is higher in the EU than in the US; (ii) gender segregation seems to be positively correlated with the share of part-time jobs; and (iii) there is some evidence, albeit a weak one, that the gender wage gap and occupational segregation are positively correlated, particularly when the Scandinavian countries are excluded from the sample.

Keywords: gender occupational segregation; gender wage gaps; part-time jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2002-07
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Published - revised version published in: Annales D'Économie et De Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 293-315

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