Local Segregation and Wellbeing

  1. Río Otero, Coral del
  2. Alonso Villar, Olga
Libro:
XXI Encuentro Economía Pública

Editorial: Universitat de Girona = Universidad de Gerona

Ano de publicación: 2014

Páxinas: 58

Congreso: Encuentro de Economía Pública (21. 2014. Girona)

Tipo: Achega congreso

Resumo

This paper proposes a measure with which to quantify the wellbeing of a demographic group associated to its distribution across occupations of different status. In doing so, it extends the status-sensitive segregation measures proposed by Del Río and Alonso- Villar (2012a). While those measures allow researchers to assess the segregation of a target group penalizing its concentration in low-status occupations, the new measure allows ranking demographic groups in terms of wellbeing.