Educational assortative mating and earnings inequality in the United States.

Autor/inn/en	Breen, Richard; Slazar, Leire
Titel	Educational assortative mating and earnings inequality in the United States.
Quelle	In: The American journal of sociology, 117 (2011) 3, S. 808-843 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-9602; 1537-5390
DOI	10.1086/661778
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Partnerschaft; Bildungsabschluss; Ungleichheit; Einkommensunterschied; Einkommen; Haushaltseinkommen; Ehepaar; Ehepartner; USA
Abstract	"This article investigates how changes in educational assortative mating affected the growth in earnings inequality among households in the United States between the late 1970s and early 2000s. The authors find that these changes had a small, negative effect on inequality: there would have been more inequality in earnings in the early 2000s if educational assortative mating patterns had remained as they were in the 1970s. Given the educational distribution of men and women in the United States, educational assortative mating can have only a weak impact on inequality, and educational sorting among partners is a poor proxy for sorting on earnings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1975 bis 2005.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/2