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Title: The Welfare Effects of Occupational Segregation by Gender and Race: Differences Across U.S. Regions
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: Using tools rooted in welfare economics, this paper explores the social welfare loss that arises from occupational segregation by gender and race in the U.S. at the subnational level. Our findings indicate that the phenomenon is not homogenous across the country (and also that spatial variation has increased over time, 1980-2012). After controlling for characteristics, some regional disparities in welfare losses persist. The (conditional) 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 intensity of the phenomenon is also lower in the Northeast than in the Midwest. On the contrary, the West has the highest (conditional) losses, although the intensity of the phenomenon barely differs from that in the South or Midwest.
Url: http://www.equalitas.es/sites/default/files/WP 60.pdf
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Authors: Alonso-Villar, Olga; del Río, Coral
Series Title: EQUALITAS Working Paper Series
Publication Number: 60
Institution: Equalitas
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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