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Gender-based Segregation before and after the Great Recession

Humpert, Stephan (2015): Gender-based Segregation before and after the Great Recession.

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Abstract

Pooled international survey data is used to analyze occupational segregation in times of the great recession. Observing over 30 European economies and the United States over a time span of 10 years, I present evidence of a somehow surprising crisis effect on gender-based segregation. While all economies differ in their general magnitudes, the economic downturn affects a temporary reduction of segregation in terms of two dissimilarity measures.

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