This paper reviews empirical findings from economic analyses of the role of gender equality
and women's empowerment in reducing poverty and stimulating economic growth. Gender …

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries,
decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to …

This article considers the problem of deriving a numerical measure of segregation, ie, a
measure of inequality in the distribution of people across groups. It proposes a list of eight …

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregation indices:
the Atkinson indices for the class of school districts with a given fixed number of ethnic …

Using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working-age Swedish population
between 1985 and 2002, the authors present evidence of substantial and increasing ethnic …

Zusammenfassung Die berufliche Trennung von Frauen und Männern ist ein markantes und
stabiles Charakteristikum des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes (Willms-Herget 1985; …

Tous égaux? Page 1 René Levy, Dominique Joye, Olivier Guye, Vincent Kaufmann Tous
égaux? De la stratification aux représentations Page 2 Table des matières En guise de …

This paper proposes seven properties for a 'good'measure of segregation, and derives the
class of numerical measures that corresponds to these properties. Measures in this class …

Frauen und Männer üben unterschiedliche Berufe aus und sind innerhalb von Berufen auf
unterschiedlichen Hierarchieebenen tätig. Diese berufliche Trennung ist ein bedeutsames …

This paper discusses a new measure of residential segregation by race that incorporates
spatial proximity among neighbourhoods into the calculation of the index. The basis for the …