Occupational Segregation Measures: A Role for Status

This paper defines local segregation measures which are sensible to status differences among organizational units. So far as we know, this is the first time that status-sensitive segregation measures are offered in a multigroup context by invoking a cardinal measure of status. They are intended to complement, rather than substitute, previous local measures since they allow assessing the segregation of a target group, the distribution of which departs from the occupational structure of the economy, by penalizing its concentration in low-status occupations. The usefulness of these tools is illustrated in the case of occupational segregation of immigrants and natives in Spain