The dynamics of occupational segregation in comparative context

Abstract

The Reskin and Ross (1990, Reskin 1994) model of the job queue and the gender queue provides a dynamic conception of the processes of gender segregation, desegregation and resegregation. This paper argues that when the Reskin and Roos model is applied to cross- national rather than single country studies it has to be adapted to integrate national variation in institutional systems and labour market conditions. This modification of the model sensities the analysis to different processes of change and different outcomes which coexist with broadly similar trends in the pattern of occupational segregation across the European Union. (Autorenreferat)