Practice question · Multiple choice
Horizontal segregation distributes genders across occupations, whereas vertical segregation sorts them hierarchically. What follows for analysing workplace inequality?
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- Can an economy experience sorting across sectors and promotional barriers at the same time?
- Does controlling for occupational grade eliminate the structural reality of sector-level sorting?
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C. Both mechanisms operate simultaneously to structure unequal aggregate earnings outcomes
Why
Segregation operates across both axes at once; treating them as mutually exclusive alternatives obscures how structural sorting and promotional barriers combine to widen the unadjusted earnings gap across labour markets.
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