The Measurement of Segregation in the Labor Force

ISBN-13: 9783642470424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 170 str.

Yves Fl Ckiger; Jacques Silber

Opis

The book surveys the various methods which may be used in measuring segregation in the labor force. It makes a distinction between the concepts of concentration and segregation, between cardinal measures and an ordinal approach to the topic. It explains also how to decompose changes in segregation. Finally it indicates how to combine the analysis of wage discrimination with that of occupational segregation. In every chapter illustrations are given, based on Swiss data. The book should therefore be very useful to any social scientist interested in these issues.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Measuring the Concentration of Women in Specific Occupations and Industries: Introduction; The Oppenheimer Approach; An Alternative Measure of the Concentration of Occupations and Industries; The Marginal Matching Approach; The 'Bootstrap Approach'.- On the Concept of Occupational Segregation: Occupational Seggregation as Reflecting the Dispersion of the Gender Ratios; Occupational Segregation by Gender and the Overlapping of Two Distributions of the Gender Ratios.- Cardinal Measures of Occupational Segregation: A Short Survey of the Existing Segregation Indices; An Illustration: Segregation by Gender in Switzerland in 1970, 1980 and 1990.- The Comparison of the Performance of the Different Segregation Indices: On the Desirable Properties of a Segregation Index.- The Ordinal Approach to the Study of Occupational Segregation by Gender: The Concept of Segregation Curve; The Segregation Curve, the Duncans'and the Gini-Segregation Indices; An Axiomatic Approach to an Ordinal Measure of Occupational Segregation by Gender; The Parametric Approach to the Study of Occcupational Segregation; Occupational Segregation by Gender in Switzerland and the Parametrization of Segregation Curves.- The Decomposition by Population Subgroups of Segregation by Gender in the Labor Force: Introduction; The Effect of Aggregation on Occupational Segregation; Aggregation and Occupational Segregation by Gender in Switzerland; The Respective Impact of Occupations and Industries on Segregation by Gender in the Labor Force; Occupational Versus Industrial Segregation by Gender in Switzerland (1980).- The Analysis of Changes and Differences in Occuptational Segregation by Gender: Introduction; The Duncans'Index and the Study of Changes in Occupational Segregation by Gender; The Gini-Segregation Index and the Analysis of Changes in Occupational Segregation by Gender; Changes over Time in Occupational and Industrial Segregation by Gender: The Case of Switzerland (1970-1980).- The Multidimensional Analysis of Segregation in the Labor Force: Introduction; The Generalization of the Duncans'and the Gini-Segregation Indices; The Decomposition of Changes in the Multidimensional G-Segregation Index; An Iterative Approach to the Analysis of Change in the Multidimensional G-Segregation Index.- From Occupational Segregation to Wage Discrimination by Gender: Introduction; The Data; The Impact of the Various Components of Human Capital on the Earnings of the Workers; The Breakdown of the Income Differential by Gender; The Role of Occupational Segregation.