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Coral del Río Otero

ECOBAS, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

In these times when diversity is demonized, IZA World of Labor offers an opportunity to transfer the results of studies with an intersectionality perspective beyond the academic sphere, offering policymakers and stakeholders a rigorous analysis.

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Professor of Applied Economics (Catedrática de Economía Aplicada). ECOBAS, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

Research interest

Economic inequality, labor economics (discrimination, segregation, unemployment), feminist economics

Website

https://crio.webs.uvigo.es/

Past positions

Director of the Equality Office of the University of Vigo, Spain

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain,1996

Selected publications

  • "Winners and losers from occupational segregation across Europe: The role of gender and migration status." Migration Studies 12 :1 (2024): 21–41 (with A. Palencia-Esteban).

  • "Gender, Race, and Class in an Intersectional Framework: Occupations and Wages in the United States." Feminist Economics 30:1 (2024): 40 - 69 (with O. Alonso-Villar).

  • "The Occupational Segregation of African American Women: its Evolution from 1940 to 2010." Feminist Economics 23:1 (2017): 108–134 (with O. Alonso-Villar).

  • “Measuring poverty accounting for time." Review of Income and Wealth 58:2 (2012): 330-354 (with C. Gradín and O. Cantó).

  • "The measurement of gender wage discrimination: The distributional approach revisited." Journal of Economic Inequality 9:1 (2011): 57-86 (with C. Gradín and O. Cantó).

article(s)

  • Intersectionality and labor market outcomes

    Putting the lens on the interaction of gender, race, and other social identities since this creates unique experiences of advantage and disadvantage

    Olga Alonso-VillarCoral del Río Otero, July 2025

    The privilege or disadvantage of individuals is not determined by a single social identity. The sexual division of labor affects women’s and men’s labor supply, the industries and occupations they enter, their earnings and progress. However, being a racial/ethnic or sexual minority (along with class and age) also influences job opportunities. Evidence shows that minority women’s experiences are unique and jointly determined by their gender and minority status, although the gender effect appears to precede that of minority.

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