Segregation and Social Welfare
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چکیده
The aim of this paper is twofold: a) to define a new concept, the welfare loss that a society can experience due to the segregation of the demographic groups that comprise it and b) to quantify this phenomenon by proposing measures that satisfy a set of desirable normative properties. For that purpose, this paper offers a framework that involves, firstly, to deal with the well-being losses (gains) that the groups have due to their sorting across organizational units and, secondly, to aggregate those losses (gains) in a proper manner. To tackle the aggregation issue, this paper embraces the distributive approach adopted in the literature on economic deprivation and poverty. In addition, this paper illustrates the advantages of these measures by exploring the welfare losses that the United States has experienced from 1980 to 2012 due to occupational segregation by both gender and race/ethnicity. JEL Classification: D63; J15; J71
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