Local Segregation and Wellbeing
Publisher: Universitat de Girona = Universidad de Gerona
Year of publication: 2014
Pages: 58
Congress: Encuentro de Economía Pública (21. 2014. Girona)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
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.