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Determinants of singleness among women aged 40 and over in Algeria: what relation to the labor market? [PDF]
The decrease in the average age of marriage and the increase in loneliness among women in Algeria is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly visible in society. In the coming years, the number of single people will increase.
Razika Medjoub, Nacer–Eddine Hammouda
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The Impact of Parental Pension Insurance on The Children’s Marriage Market [PDF]
In recent years, China’s marriage rate and fertility rate have continued to decline, and the divorce rate has been rising, accompanied by the increasing aging problem in China.
Kang Jiayi
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Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting
Abstract We develop a new equilibrium model in which households’ labour supply choices form the link between sorting on the marriage market and sorting on the labour market. We first show that in theory, the nature of home production—whether partners’ hours are complements or substitutes—shapes equilibrium labour supply as well as ...
Calvo, Paula +2 more
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College as a Marriage Market [PDF]
Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the question of why college graduates are so likely to marry someone within their own institution or field of study.
Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen +2 more
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Demographics in the “Marriage Market” of the Sverdlovsk Region [PDF]
The article is devoted to the analysis of “marriage market” in the Sverdlovsk region and its comparison with the corresponding situation in the Russian Federation. In recent years, the level of marriage rate (per 1000 population) has reduced. According
Aleksandr Borisovich Sinelnikov
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The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parents exert financial and social powers to influence spouse characteristics and ensure optimal marriages.
S.B. Schaffnit +9 more
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This article focuses on the following question: How would interracial marriage rates change when considering the racial distribution of the local marriage market? I used data from the Brazilian Census for the years 1991 and 2000 and loglinear models. The
Maria Carolina Tomás
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Marriage markets with externalities [PDF]
This paper examines a marriage market with externality. We first develop an appropriate notion of stability for this market, called E-stability. We provide an example to show that an E-stable outcome need not exist. We then derive conditions under which an E-stable outcome exists.
Prabal Roy Chowdhury
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More of the Same? Comparing the Personalities of Ex-Spouse and New Partner after Divorce
The similarity of the Big Five personality traits of ex-spouses and new partners was examined post-divorce. The notion that divorcees replicate their partner choice (fixed-type hypothesis) was tested against the hypotheses that they learn to select a new
Sascha Spikic +2 more
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Marriage and Marriage Markets [PDF]
This chapter reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio can help explain outcomes such as marriage formation, the intramarriage distribution of consumption goods, labor supply, savings, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Economic models of marriage pioneered by Gary Becker are reviewed in the first section and
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