RT Generic
T1 The joint effect of ethnicity and gender on occupational segregation : an approach based on the Mutual Information Index
A1 Guinea-Martin, Daniel
A1 Mora, Ricardo
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB This 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 combinedimpact 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.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2012
FD 2012-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13849
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13849
LA eng
NO Guinea-Martin acknowledges funding from theEconomic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom through grant RES-163-27-1003, and from theSpanish 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-Castilloacknowledges financial help from the Spanish government through grant SEJ2007-67436
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