Measuring segregation: an activity space approach

Measuring Segregation∗

We propose a set of basic properties that any reasonable segregation index should have. We then fully characterize the class of segregation indices that satisfy these basic properties. We show that every such index has a particular simple form. Finally, we show that with one rarely used exception, each index defined in the literature violates one or more of our basic properties. Journal of Econ...

A New Approach to Measuring Socio-Spatial Economic Segregation

In this paper we propose two measures of income segregation, the rank-order information theory index (HR), and the rank-order variation ratio index (HR). We propose spatially-explicit versions of these indices as well. These indices have several appealing features that remedy flaws in existing measures. First, they are relatively easy to compute, since they require simply computing a series of ...

Measuring school segregation

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregation indices: the Atkinson Indices for the class of school districts with a given …xed number of ethnic groups and the Mutual Information Index for the class of all districts. Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application, we document a weakening of the e¤ect of ethnicity...

Segregation in Urban Space : A New Measurement Approach

An Algorithm to Reduce the Occupational Space in Gender Segregation

This paper presents an algorithm based on the bootstrap to select an admissible aggregation level, that is, the minimum number of occupational categories which yield a gender segregation value which is not significantly smaller than that obtained from the large number of occupational categories usually available in any data set. The approach is illustrated using Labor Force Survey data for Spai...