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Title: Local Segregation and Well-Being

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: This paper proposes an index that quantifies the well-being (ill-being) of a target group associated with its occupational segregation: that is, this index assesses the gains/losses of that group which are derived from its underrepresentation in some occupations and overrepresentation in others. This index has several good properties. In particular, it is equal to zero when either the group has no segregation or all occupations have the same wage, and increases when individuals of the group move into occupations that have higher wages than those left behind. This well-being measure permits to rank different demographic groups using distributive value judgments that are in the line of those conducted in the literature on economic inequality.

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Authors: del Rio, Coral; Alonso-Villar, Olga

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Publication Number: 2014-320

Institution: Universidade de Vigo and EQUALITAS

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Publisher Location: Vigo, Spain

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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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