Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
| Autor: | Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih, Kocharkov, Georgi, Santos, Cezar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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inequality
J11 J22 J12 jel:D31 social sciences married female labor supply Familienökonomik Soziale Schicht jel:J11 jel:J22 jel:J12 Einkommensverteilung Assortative mating married female labor supply inequality assortative mating behavior and behavior mechanisms ddc:330 D31 Ehe reproductive and urinary physiology USA |
| Popis: | Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income 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 random, instead of the pattern observed in the data, then the Gini coefficient would have fallen from the observed 0.43 to 0.34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level of married female labor-force participation in 2005 is important for this result. |
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