Intergenerational Segregation

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Gender-linked occupational segregation captures the extent to which the labor market is divided into female- and male-type occupations or jobs that are equal neither in their variety
(Mandel and Semyonov 2006) nor in the social position attributed to the occupations (Jacobs,
1989). In the late-modern era, a labor market is gender segregated usually in the sense that women are concentrated in service occupations while men hold all other positions (Charles and Grusky 2004)
Labor market gender segregation is assumed to affect gender differences in intergenerational mobility due to two important factors: first, a segregated market offers different opportunities to men and women, thus forming different paths for intergenerational mobility. Second,

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