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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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"The consequences of educational equality and inequality in marriage have so far never been studied. This book breaks new ground, showing that rising levels of homogamy entail increasing inequality between households in modern societies. This landmark study will stimulate a new stream of research on the social and economic impact of educational (in)equality in marriage."
(Catherine Hakim, London School of Economics)
"The rising enrollment in higher education, especially of women, has not only led to a postponement of marriage but also increased the importance of the educational system as a place to meet and find a (marriage) partner. Since education is the most influential factor for peoples' later job careers and income attainment, increasing rates of educational assortative mating leads to a wider spread in households' income distribution. For the first time, this book studies the long-term process of assortative mating over the life course for thirteen modern industrialized countries, beginning from a pool of eligibles up to the point where they marry a partner of equal, higher or lower educational status.With increasing duration in school, the rate of homogenous marriages rises, and after the transition from school to work more heterogonous environments account for the fact of less homogeneity in later marriages. The book also shows that social origin matters especially for women: In most countries educationally upward mobile women are very likely to marry downward. The changing role of the educational system as a marriage market in the course of educational expansion and women's changing economic roles in the labor market and the family are the main driving forces behind this development. Using event history methods, the book compares the processes of assortative mating in the various European societies, in Israel and the USA, and points out communalities and differences in the mechanisms."
(Wolfgang Teckenberg, University of Heidelberg )
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Who Marries Whom?
Book Subtitle: Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies
Editors: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Andreas Timm
Series Title: European Studies of Population
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1065-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1682-0Published: 31 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1803-9Published: 31 December 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1065-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1381-3579
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 342
Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Sociology, general, Economics, general