MEASURING OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION - SUMMARY STATISTICS AND THE IMPACT OF CLASSIFICATION ERRORS AND AGGREGATION

Authors
DEUTSCH J FLUCKIGER Y SILBER J
Citation
J. Deutsch et al., MEASURING OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION - SUMMARY STATISTICS AND THE IMPACT OF CLASSIFICATION ERRORS AND AGGREGATION, Journal of econometrics, 61(1), 1994, pp. 133-146
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods",Economics,"Mathematical, Methods, Social Sciences
Journal title
Journal of econometrics → ACNP
ISSN journal
03044076
Volume
61
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
133 - 146
Database
ISI
SICI code
0304-4076(1994)61:1<133:MOS-SS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The study of occupational segregation is shown to be related to that o f income inequality, the gender ratio in each occupation playing the r ole of individual income. Measures of the dispersion, skewness, kurtos is, and concentration of the distribution of this gender ratio are sug gested, and an empirical illustration based on Swiss data for the peri od 1950-1980 is given. Finally bootstrap techniques are used to check the impact of classification errors and aggregation on the measurement of occupational segregation.