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inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …
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. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … income inequality. …
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This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in …
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assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental … rise in average offspring education and earnings as well as a decline in offspring inequality. …
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This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with … conclusions about the role of marital sorting in rising income inequality. …
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increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … that rising earnings inequality is, at least in part, supply driven by rising skill inequality. …
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This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic position of their offspring's parents-in-law. Using the Goldthorpe-Hope score of occupational prestige as a...
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inequality between couples. …
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substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and …
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There have been several attempts to measure social capital - the value inhering in relationships - at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct linkage and imputation across several nationally representative...
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