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The economics of marriage: Evidence from China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
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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Mixed marriages between immigrants and natives in Spain: The gendered effect of marriage market constraints

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2018
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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On the Stability of Couples

open access: yesGames, 2018
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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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
We present a model in which investment in schooling generates two kinds of returns: the labor-market return, resulting from higher wages, and a marriage-market return, defined as the impact of schooling on the marital surplus share one can extract. Men and women may have different incentives to invest in schooling because of different market wages or ...
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre   +2 more
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Fish in the sea: Number, characteristics, and partner preferences of unmarried Japanese adults - analysis of a national survey.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
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

open access: yesJournal of Applied Economics, 2022
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

open access: yesJournal of Family Research, 2021
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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Tránsitos: circulación de brasileñas en el ámbito de la transnacionalización de los mercados sexual y matrimonial

open access: yesHorizontes Antropológicos, 2009
En este artículo tomo como referencia la migración de brasileñas a Europa en el contexto de la trasnacionalización y la imbricación de los mercados del sexo y matrimonial.
Adriana Piscitelli
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Modeling Local Variations in Intermarriage

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
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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