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Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic
by
Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Juan F. Jimeno
(July 2002)
revised version published in: Annales D'Économie et De Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 293-315
Abstract:
In this paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU
countries vis-ŕ-vis the US. Given the lack of long time-series data on homogeneous LFS data
about occupations and educational attainments for male and female workers in EU countries,
we use a single cross section corresponding to 1999 as the basis of comparison, hoping to
uncover convergence trends by examining whether the EU-Us differentials in gender
occupational segregation decline across age cohorts. The main findings of our study are: (i)
gender segregation has been declining across age cohorts in the case of female graduates
and has remained steady for those with lower educational levels; in particular, the level of
segregation for the former group is higher in the EU than in the US; (ii) gender segregation
seems to be positively correlated with the share of part-time jobs; and (iii) there is some
evidence, albeit a weak one, that the gender wage gap and occupational segregation are
positively correlated, particularly when the Scandinavian countries are excluded from the
sample.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 524
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