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Educational Homogamy, Positive Assortative Mating and Income Inequality in South Africa: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis

open access: yes, 2020
Apart from being the first attempt at investigating the impact of education-based homogamy and positive assortative mating on income inequality in a developing country context with very high levels of inequality and low education levels, this study ...
Umakrishnan Kollamparambil
semanticscholar   +1 more source

EDUCATIONAL HOMOGAMY IN 22 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

open access: yesEuropean Societies, 2007
ABSTRACT Research on socioeconomic homogamy was developed by stratification researchers who used marriage patterns to describe how open stratification systems are. In cross-national studies primary concern on marriage homogamy lies in examination of commonality and differences in their social structures.
Henryk Domański, Dariusz Przybysz
openaire   +1 more source

Trends and educational variation in the association between spouses' marital histories in South Korea, 1993-2017

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2021
Background: Marriages between divorced and never-married individuals indicate a society's openness to divorce and have implications for children's well-being.
Sangsoo Lee, Hyunjoon Park
doaj   +1 more source

Parental age at childbirth and children’s educational outcomes: evidence from upper-secondary schools in Italy

open access: yesGenus, 2020
In the last decades, Western societies have been involved in huge demographic changes, amongst which one of the most important has been the increasing postponement of the transition to parenthood.
Stefano Cantalini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain: trends and patterns*

open access: yesBritish Journal of Sociology, 2003
This paper examines the pattern of educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain. Using contemporary data on recent marriages from the early 1970s through to the mid-1990s, we show that these two countries share a broadly similar pattern of educational homogamy, which is quasi-symmetric in character, with no tendency for women to marry up over and above ...
Brendan Halpin, Tak Wing Chan
openaire   +4 more sources

Meta-analysis of studies about divorce in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زن و خانواده, 2018
Study of the issue of divorce and factors affecting this subject are of those issues that have drawn the intellectual community and especially sociologists’ attention into this field in recent decades.
ali asghar firozjaeian   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
wiley   +1 more source

Occupational Licensing, Intergenerational Occupational Persistence and Social Mobility

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the relationship between occupational regulation and intergenerational occupational persistence. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2024), we find that individuals are significantly more likely to enter a licensed occupation if a parent also worked in one, with the effect strongest in occupations where regulatory hurdles ...
Maria Koumenta, Mark Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Expansion and Homogamy. An Analysis of the Consequences of Educational Upgrading for Assortative Mating in Switzerland

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociology, 2017
We analyze the changing relationship between education and assortative mating over the course of educational expansion in Switzerland between 1970 and 2000.
Becker Rolf, Jann Ben
doaj   +1 more source

Partners Mirror Each Other's Informal Helping Behavior: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This paper examines to what extent partners' informal helping behaviors are related and to what extent this partner effect differs by gender. Differences in informal help given to kin and non‐kin are explored. Background Although prior research has suggested that partners influence each other's helping behavior, these mostly cross ...
Marlou J. M. Ramaekers   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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