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The joint effect of ethnicity and gender on occupational segregation : an approach based on the Mutual Information Index

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorGuinea-Martin, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorMora, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Castillo, Javier
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-21T10:40:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-16T08:25:26Z
dc.date.available2013-05-16T08:25:26Z
dc.date.issued2012-12
dc.description.abstractThis article studies the effects of gender and ethnicity on occupational segregation. The traditional approach to this topic measures the two sources of segregation separately. In contrast, we measure the joint effect of gender and ethnicity by applying a multigroup segregation index–the Mutual Information or M index–to the product of the two genders and seven ethnic groups distinguished in our census data for England and Wales in 2001. We exploit M's strong group decomposability property to consistently pose the following two questions: (i) How much does each source contribute to occupational segregation, controlling for the effect of the other? (ii) Is the combined impact of gender and ethnicity greater than, equal to, or smaller than the sum of their individual effects? The main empirical findings are the following two. First, we confirm previous results showing the greater importance of gender over ethnicity as a source of occupational segregation. However, we find that ethnicity contributes 13.5 percent of overall segregation in geographical areas where minorities concentrate. Second, contrary to intersectionality theories, we find that there is a small, “dwindling” interaction effect between the two sources of segregation: ethnicity slightly weakens the segregative power of gender, and vice versa.
dc.description.sponsorshipGuinea-Martin acknowledges funding from the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom through grant RES-163-27-1003, and from the Spanish government through contract RYC-2008-03758, and grants CSO2008-03222 and CSO2011-30179-C02-02. Mora acknowledges financial help from the Spanish government through grant ECO2009-11165. Ruiz-Castillo acknowledges financial help from the Spanish government through grant SEJ2007-67436
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe1140
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/13849
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000000819
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries11-40
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.otherBritain
dc.subject.otherDisadvantage
dc.subject.otherEthnicity
dc.subject.otherGender
dc.subject.otherIntersectionality
dc.subject.otherMutual Information Index
dc.subject.otherOccupations
dc.subject.otherSegregation
dc.titleThe joint effect of ethnicity and gender on occupational segregation : an approach based on the Mutual Information Index
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