Occupational Segregation by Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Differences Across States

Gradín, Carlos; Río, Coral del; Alonso‐Villar, Olga

doi:10.1080/00343404.2013.864384

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“…See the mean values and corresponding standard deviations in Table A1 (column 1) in the Appendix. For an analysis of spatial disparities across states in terms of racial ⁄ ethnic segregation, see Gradín, del Río, and Alonso-Villar (2011). 11 The only MA not used in the analysis, because of its small size, is Grand Junction, Colorado.…”

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The Extent of Occupational Segregation in the United States: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Alonso‐Villar¹,

Río²,

Gradín³

2012

Industrial Relations

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This paper studies occupational segregation by ethnicity/race and gender by following a new approach that facilitates multigroup comparisons and econometric analyses to take into account group characteristics. The analysis shows that segregation is particularly intense in the Hispanic and Asian populations (the situation being more severe for the former given its higher concentration in low‐paid jobs). A distinctive characteristic of Hispanics is that segregation is higher for men than for women although females are more concentrated in low‐paid jobs. Segregation neither for women nor for African and Native Americans is reduced by taking human capital variables into account.

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The Extent of Occupational Segregation in the United States: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Alonso‐Villar¹,

Río²,

Gradín³

2012

Industrial Relations

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“…Second, occupational segregation has been mostly estimated at the national level and there has been little inquiry into this issue at a subnational scale (Abrahamson and Sigelman ; Lorence ; Gradín et al ; Perales and Vidal ), despite the fact that the situation of a group may depend on the characteristics of the local labour market in which it works (Cohen and Huffman ; Cotter et al ). In fact, variability in segregation by gender seems to be more intense across MAs than nationally across time (Lorence ).…”

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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the US: Differences across metropolitan areas

Alonso‐Villar

Río

2017

Papers in Regional Science

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S.: Differences across metropolitan areas * Olga Alonso-Villar † Terms of use: Documents in Universidade de Vigo, Spain Coral del Río Universidade de Vigo, Spain and EQUALITAS AbstractThis paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet with across American urban areas. An important contribution of this paper is that, apart from quantifying the extent of segregation it also assesses the consequences of that segregation taking into account the "quality" of occupations that the group tends to fill or not to fill. The analysis shows that between 20% and 40% of white women working in a metropolitan area would have to shift occupations to achieve zero segregation in that area. Differences regarding the nature of that segregation are even stronger. In some metropolitan areas, the uneven distribution of white women across occupations brings them a per capita monetary gain of about 21% of the average wage of the area while in other metropolitan areas this group has a per capita loss of nearly 11%.

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“…2 For studies applying these measures to explore occupational segregation by race/ethnicity and/or gender in the United States, seeWatts (1995) andGradín et al (2015).…”

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The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the United States, 1940–2010: Gains and Losses of Gender–Race/Ethnicity Groups

Río

Alonso‐Villar

2015

Demography

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The aim of this article is twofold: (1) to descriptively explore the evolution of occupational segregation of women and men of different racial/ethnic groups in the United States during 1940-2010, and (2) to assess the consequences of segregation for each group. For that purpose, in this article, we propose a simple index that measures the monetary loss or gain of a group derived from its overrepresentation in some occupations and underrepresentation in others. This index has a clear economic interpretation. It represents the per capita advantage (if the index is positive) or disadvantage (if the index is negative) of the group, derived from its segregation, as a proportion of the average wage of the economy. Our index is a helpful tool not only for academics but also for institutions concerned with inequalities among demographic groups because it makes it possible to rank them according to their segregational nature.

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Occupational Segregation by Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Differences Across States

Cited by 24 publications

References 32 publications

The Extent of Occupational Segregation in the United States: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

The Extent of Occupational Segregation in the United States: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the US: Differences across metropolitan areas

The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the United States, 1940–2010: Gains and Losses of Gender–Race/Ethnicity Groups

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