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More than 'Mutual Information': Educational and Sectoral Gender Segregation and Their Interaction on the Flemish Labour Market

Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Karolien De Bruyne, Luc Sels
2010 Social Science Research Network  

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We build on the Information Theory foundations of the Mutual Information Index of Segregation [Mora and Ruiz-Castillo, 2003; Frankel and Volij, 2007] to analyze two horizontal dimensions of gender segregation on the labour market. We provide a novel, three-way addditive decomposition of their e¤ects on overall segregation. Using survey data from 41,712 Flemish employees, we ...nd that choice of study ...eld has a larger e¤ect on overall segregation than sectoral choice. Their mutual interaction
more » ... is negative, indicating that sectoral segregation, although low, is still partly explained by educational choices.
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1683358 fatcat:vyqrzxtklnb35ctcqrfu5tloke
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Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Karolien De Bruyne, Luc Sels. "More than 'Mutual Information': Educational and Sectoral Gender Segregation and Their Interaction on the Flemish Labour Market." Social Science Research Network (2010)