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Occupational and industrial segregation of female and male workers in Spain: An alternative approach

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Coral del Río (Universidade de Vigo)
Olga Alonso-Villar () (Universidade de Vigo)
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This paper aims to analyze occupational and industrial segregation in the Spanish labor market by using the alternative tools proposed by Alonso-Villar and Del Río (2007), along with some new extensions put forward here. In particular, two decompositions of their segregation curves are proposed. The approach followed in this article allows measuring segregation of women and men separately, since the distribution of each group of workers across occupations and industries is compared with the distribution of total employment. To analyze industrial segregation, an aggregated classification of industries in four large groups (agriculture-fishing, industry, construction and services) and another by branches of activity are considered while to study occupational segregation, several partitions of individuals and of occupations are included.

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Paper provided by ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality in its series Working Papers with number 84.

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Keywords: Occupational and industrial segregation; Segregation curves; Gender;

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J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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