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Title: Segregation and Social Welfare

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: This paper aims at quantifying the welfare loss that a society can experience due to the segregation of the demographic groups that comprise it. In aggregating the well-being losses (gains) of the groups derived for being concentrated in low-status (high-status) organizational units, this paper embraces the distributive approach adopted in the literature on economic deprivation and poverty. In addition to developing several measures, this paper explores the welfare losses that the United States has experienced over the last decades due to occupational segregation by both gender and race/ethnicity. The analysis is undertaken at both a national and a regional level since occupational segregation along these lines is far from been a homogenous phenomenon across the country.

Url: http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2015-378.pdf

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

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Publication Number: 2015-378

Institution: Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

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Publisher Location: Vigo, Spain

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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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