Publication: Gender segregation by occupations in the public and the private sectors : the case of Spain in 1977 and 1992
| dc.affiliation.dpto | UC3M. Departamento de Economía | es |
| dc.contributor.author | Ruiz-Castillo, Javier | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mora, Ricardo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-14T11:43:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-07-14T11:43:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In many countries, non-discriminatory recruiting procedures, as well as other job characteristics, make public sector employment especially attractive to women. In the first empirical paper comparing gender segregation in the public and the private sectors, an additively decomposable segregation index based on the entropy concept is applied to Spanish data for the 1977-1992 period. It is found that during this period the gender segregation related to sector choices is larger in the public sector. But this is offset by the fact that gender segregation induced by occupational choices is larger within the private sector. The difference in occupational gender segregation between the two sectors is mainly accounted for gender composition effects in 1977 and occupational mix effects in 1992. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Los procedimientos no discriminatorios de contratación y otros aspectos de las condiciones laborales hacen que en muchos países el sector público resulte especialmente atractivo para las mujeres. Este es primer trabajo empírico que compara la segregación por género en el sector privado y en el público. Para ello se aplica un índice aditivamente descomponible basado en el concepto de entropía a los datos españoles del período 1977-1992. Se encuentra que, durante este período, la segregación relacionada con la elección del sector es mayor en el sector público. Pero ésto se compensa por el hecho de que la segregación inducida por la elección de ocupación es mayor dentro el sector privado. La diferencia de la segregación ocupacional entre los dos sectores se debe, sobre todo, a las diferencias en la distribución del empleo por género y ocupaciones en 1977, y a las diferencias entre el tamaño de las ocupaciones en ambos sectores en 1992. | es |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We wish to acknowledge the excellent work done by the Research Assistant Neus Herranz, who acknowledges financial support from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, 2001-2002. Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Ricardo Mora acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Instituto de la Mujer, Project Number 16/97. Ricardo Mora acknowledges financial support from DGI, Grant BEC2003-03943. This paper has been presented in the September 2002 meeting of the network "Living Standards, Inequality, and Taxation", in Lubeck, financed by the European Communities (Contract #ERBCHRXCT980248). The present version has greatly benefited from two referee reports. The usual disclaimer applies. | |
| dc.description.status | Publicado | |
| dc.format.extent | 30 p. | |
| dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | Investigaciones Económicas (2004), 28(3), pp. 399-428 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0210-1521 | |
| dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage | 399 | |
| dc.identifier.publicationissue | 3 | |
| dc.identifier.publicationlastpage | 428 | |
| dc.identifier.publicationtitle | Investigaciones Económicas | |
| dc.identifier.publicationvolume | 28 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10016/4746 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Fundación Empresa Pública (Fundación SEPI) | es |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/10016/285 | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | http://www.fundacionsepi.es/revistas/paperArchive/Sep2004/v28i3a1.pdf | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | restricted access | |
| dc.subject.eciencia | Economía | |
| dc.subject.jel | J16 | |
| dc.subject.jel | J31 | |
| dc.subject.jel | J71 | |
| dc.subject.other | Additively decomposable entropy indexes | |
| dc.subject.other | Gender segregation | |
| dc.subject.other | Public sector hiring procedures | |
| dc.subject.other | Índices de entropía aditivamente descomponibles | es |
| dc.subject.other | Segregación por género | es |
| dc.subject.other | Procedimientos de contratación públicos | es |
| dc.title | Gender segregation by occupations in the public and the private sectors : the case of Spain in 1977 and 1992 | en |
| dc.type | research article | * |
| dc.type.review | PeerReviewed | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |