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The welfare effects of occupational segregation by gender and race: Differences across US Regions
Author(s) -
AlonsoVillar Olga,
Río Coral
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12551
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , welfare , race (biology) , demographic economics , inequality , phenomenon , geography , economics , socioeconomics , demography , welfare economics , sociology , economic growth , gender studies , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , market economy , mathematical analysis
Using tools rooted in welfare economics, this paper explores the social welfare loss that arises from occupational segregation by gender and race in the US at the regional level. After controlling for characteristics, the losses are lower in the Northeast than in the South and West according to a wide range of indicators, including those that take into account the relative size of disadvantaged groups (incidence), the magnitude of their losses (intensity), and the inequality among those groups. The West has the highest (conditional) losses, although the intensity of the phenomenon barely differs from that in the South or Midwest.