TY - JOUR AU - Hellerstein, Judith AU - Neumark, David AU - McInerney, Melissa TI - Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 13080 PY - 2007 Y2 - May 2007 DO - 10.3386/w13080 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13080 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13080.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Judith K. Hellerstein Department of Economics Tydings Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 301/405-3545 Fax: 301/405-3542 E-Mail: hellerst@econ.umd.edu David Neumark Department of Economics University of California, Irvine 3151 Social Science Plaza Irvine, CA 92697 Tel: 949-824-8496 Fax: 949/824-2182 E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu Melissa McInerney Department of Economics Tufts University 8 Upper Campus Road Medford, MA 02115 Tel: 617/267-3663 E-Mail: melissa.mcinerney@tufts.edu M1 - published as Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark, Melissa McInerney. "Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data," in Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till von Wachter, editors, "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches" University of Chicago Press (2008) M3 - presented at "The Analysis of Firms and Employees", January 2, 2007 AB - We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by skill, as measured by education. Putting together the 1990 and 2000 data, we find no evidence of declines in workplace segregation by race and ethnicity; indeed, black-white segregation increased. Over this decade, segregation by education also increased. In contrast, workplace segregation by sex fell over the decade, and would have fallen by more had the services industry - a heavily female industry in which sex segregation is relatively high - not experienced rapid employment growth. ER -