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Background: Spain has become an important immigrant destination relatively recently. Marriages between natives and immigrants are among the most important agents of social and cultural change in contemporary Spanish society.
Amparo González-Ferrer +3 more
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The economics of marriage: Evidence from China
Marriage market imbalances are common in modern society for social and economic reasons, including the increased cost of marriage caused by high housing prices and an imbalance in the number of men and women. We draw on the family economic theory of Gary
Zhitong Gao, Jihong Pang, Hongyong Zhou
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In this article, we analyze the stability of couples on the marriage market. Recent developments in cooperative game theory allow a new model that uses team games which make it possible to model the marriage market. Coalition structures can model couples.
Tobias Hiller
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BackgroundA large proportion of adults in Japan remain unmarried even though they intend to marry during their lifetime. To provide data for policy makers and those searching for partners in the Japanese marriage market, we estimated the number and ...
Cyrus Ghaznavi +6 more
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An economic approach to marriage
The purpose of this paper is to outline an economic approach to marriage. The first part contains an introduction to the economics of a family. The second part analyses the marriage market.
Marek Louzek
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Marriage migration and women's entry into the German labour market
Objective: We analyse the employment patterns of childless first-generation migrants to Germany. In particular, we focus on the behaviour of female "marriage migrants". Marriage migrants are defined as individuals who married after their spouse had moved
Cristina Samper, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Modeling Local Variations in Intermarriage
We utilized all Spanish marriage records available at the municipality level from 2005–2007 to model spatial variations in intermarriage. We constructed a spatial regime zero-inflated Poisson model and grouped-data probit model, with spatially lagged ...
Albert Esteve +2 more
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Males’ Wage Inequality and Females’ Propensity to Marry in Iran [PDF]
Average females’ age in the first marriage was increasing in Iran over the last two decades from 20.9 in 1991 to 22.7 in 2010. It is well accepted that labor market prospects and the males’ wage structure are the main determinants of preference toward ...
Gholam Reza K. Haddad +1 more
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Reasons for Delayed Marriage and Its Determinants in Iran [PDF]
Introduction Postponement of marriage is a global phenomenon. On average, the mean age at first marriage has increased for both genders by about two years during the first two decades of the 21st century (UN Population Division, 2016).
Milad Bagi
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Background: Despite a wide range of contraceptive methods, unmet need persists. New contraceptive technologies (CTs) have the potential to improve uptake and continuation.
Meghan Reidy +2 more
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