Income inequality and income segregation

SF Reardon, K Bischoff - American journal of sociology, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article investigates how the growth in income inequality from 1970 to 2000 affected
patterns of income segregation along three dimensions: the spatial segregation of poverty …

Measuring the diversity of household spending patterns

A Chai, N Rohde, J Silber - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Households tend to diversify their spending across a wide range of goods and services as
they become more affluent. Recently, there has been growing interest in understanding the …

Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries

M Borrowman, S Klasen - Feminist Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent and a major
contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of aggregate …

Measuring school segregation

DM Frankel, O Volij - Journal of Economic Theory, 2011 - Elsevier
Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregation indices:
the Atkinson indices for the class of school districts with a given fixed number of ethnic …

Measures of ordinal segregation

SF Reardon - Occupational and residential segregation, 2009 - emerald.com
Purpose–To develop measures of segregation that are appropriate when either the groups
or the organizational units are defined by ordered categories. These methods allow the …

School and residential segregation in the reproduction of urban segregation: A case study in Buenos Aires

PS Serrati - Urban Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The link between residential and school segregation is widely recognised as a key to
explaining urban inequalities. However, most studies have focused on countries of the …

Entropy-based segregation indices

R Mora, J Ruiz-Castillo - Sociological Methodology, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research has shown that two entropy-based segregation indices possess an
appealing mixture of basic and subsidiary but useful properties. It would appear that the only …

A method for studying differences in segregation across time and space

B Elbers - Sociological Methods & Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
An important topic in the study of segregation are comparisons across space and time. This
article extends current approaches in segregation measurement by presenting a five-term …

The evolution of gender segregation over the life course

D Guinea-Martin, R Mora… - American Sociological …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a measure of gender segregation over the life course that includes differences
between women and men in occupational allocation, degree of time involvement in paid …

Occupational segregation of immigrant women in Spain

C Del Río, O Alonso-Villar - Feminist Economics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This contribution analyzes occupational segregation during a period of high employment in
the Spanish labor market by gender and immigrant status, using several local and overall …