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The welfare effects of occupational segregation by gender and race: Differences across US Regions

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  • Olga Alonso‐Villar
  • Coral del Río

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Using tools rooted in welfare economics, this paper explores the social welfare loss that arises from occupational segregation by gender and race in the US at the regional level. After controlling for characteristics, the losses are lower in the Northeast than in the South and West according to a wide range of indicators, including those that take into account the relative size of disadvantaged groups (incidence), the magnitude of their losses (intensity), and the inequality among those groups. The West has the highest (conditional) losses, although the intensity of the phenomenon barely differs from that in the South or Midwest. Este artículo utiliza herramientas arraigadas en la economía del bienestar para estudiar la pérdida de bienestar social que surge de la segregación ocupacional por género y raza en los Estados Unidos a nivel regional. Después de controlar las características, las pérdidas son menores en el Nordeste que en el Sur y el Oeste, de acuerdo con una amplia gama de indicadores, incluidos los que tienen en cuenta el tamaño relativo de los grupos desfavorecidos (incidencia), la magnitud de sus pérdidas (intensidad) y la desigualdad entre grupos. El Oeste tiene las pérdidas más altas (condicionales), aunque la intensidad del fenómeno apenas difiere de la del Sur o la del Medio Oeste. 本稿では、福祉経済学に根付くツールを用いて、地域レベルでの米国における性別および人種的な職業分離から生じる社会福祉的な損失を探索する。特性を調整した後、不利な立場にある集団の相対的な大きさ (発生率) 、その損失の大きさ (強度)、およびその集団間における不平等を考慮したものを含む様々な指標によると、損失は南部および西部よりも北東部で低い。西部は最も (条件付きの) 損失が大きいが、この現象の強度は南部や中西部とはほとんど変わらない。

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  • Olga Alonso‐Villar & Coral del Río, 2020. "The welfare effects of occupational segregation by gender and race: Differences across US Regions," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 99(6), pages 1773-1797, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:99:y:2020:i:6:p:1773-1797
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12551
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