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This study examines if the low rate of labour force participation of women is the result of demand constraint which creates gender based occupational segregation in north Cyprus labour market between years 2004-2014. Standardized D-index is used to calculate the level of segregation and to decompose and identify the effect of the changes in the occ...
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... subject to the above mentioned massive migrant flow and economic changes we need to distinguish the effect of changes in the occupational structure of the labour force. We do so by decomposing the changes in the index of segregation over time by employing decomposition method suggested by Blau and Hendrics (1979).The results are displayed in Table 5. The decomposition results show that 34.5% of the increase in occupational segregation attributed to the changes in the gender composition within occupations. ...Context 2
... subject to the above mentioned massive migrant flow and economic changes we need to distinguish the effect of changes in the occupational structure of the labour force. We do so by decomposing the changes in the index of segregation over time by employing decomposition method suggested by Blau and Hendrics (1979).The results are displayed in Table 5. The decomposition results show that 34.5% of the increase in occupational segregation attributed to the changes in the gender composition within occupations. ...