Occupational and residential segregation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Yves Flückiger, Sean F. Reardon, Jacques Silber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455241503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley, UK, : Emerald Group, c2009
• ISBN: 1-280-77149-6; 9786613682260; 1-84855-787-6
• Edizione: [1 st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Collana: Research on economic inequality ; ; 17
• Altri autori (Persone): FlückigerYves <1955->; ReardonSean F; SilberJacques
• Disciplina: 339.2
• Soggetti: Segregation - Measurement; Discrimination in employment; Discrimination in housing; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Occupational and Residential Segregation; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I. Information Theory and the Measurement of Segregation; The information theory of segregation: uniting segregation and inequality in a common framework; Introduction; Information theory, segregation, and inequality; Notation and assumptions; Implications of an information theory approach to segregation; Discussion and examples; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; The invariance properties of the mutual information index of multigroup segregation; Introduction; Notation and invariance axioms The mutual information index of segregation; Decompositions of pairwise comparisons of the mutual information index; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II. The GINI Index and the Measurement of Segregation; The GINI coefficient and segregation on a continuous variable; Background; The geometry of the index; Formulation; Empirical application; Conclusion; Note; Acknowledgments; References; Generalized GINI occupational ; segregation indices; 1. Introduction; 2. Formal framework; 3. A comparison with the other Gini-related segregation indices; 4. An empirical illustration 5. Conclusions; Notes; References; Appendix A. Comparing the Reardon and Firebaugh (2002) Gini index of multigroup segregation and the Gini index derived in this paper; Appendix B. Definition of the Karmel and Maclachlan segregation index (also called ''generalized Duncan index''); Appendix C. List of the states and the symbols used to represent them; Appendix D. List of occupations; Part III: Measuring Segregation with Ordered Categories; Occupational segregation with economic disadvantage: an investigation of decomposable indexes; The problem and an approach to the problem Three decompositions; Implementation; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Comment on Robert Hutchens, ''Occupational segregation with economic disadvantage: an investigation of decomposable indexes''; A response to Paul Jargowsky's comment; Measures of ordinal segregation; Motivating examples; Prior methods of measuring ordinal segregation; Notation; Desirable properties of an ordinal segregation measure; Measuring segregation by an ordinal category; Properties of the ordinal segregation measures; Discussion and conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments References; Part IV: Exploring Changes in Segregation; Exploring changes in the spatial pattern of income segregation during the 1990's; I. Introduction; II. Describing the dynamics of income segregation during the 1990's; III. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Analyzing changes in occupational segregation: the case of Switzerland (1970-2000); 1. Introduction; 2. Using correspondence analysis to observe the changes that took place in Switzerland between 1970 and 2000 in the occupational structure by gender and nationality; 3. Separating the impact of changes in the margins from changes in the degree of dependence between the rows and the columns
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is divided into five parts, each one including two chapters. Part I is devoted to 'Information Theory and Segregation Measurement', part II to 'The Gini Index and the Measurement of Segregation', part III to 'Measuring Segregation with Ordered Categories', part IV to 'Exploring Changes in Segregation' and part V to 'Wage Inequality and Segregation'. Let us now review into more details each of these ten chapters.