书目名称 | Who Marries Whom? |
副标题 | Educational Systems |
编辑 | Hans-Peter Blossfeld,Andreas Timm |
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丛书名称 | European Studies of Population |
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描述 | Marriage and social inequality are closely interrelated. Marriage is dependent on the structure of marriage markets, and marriage patterns have consequences for social inequality. This book demonstrates that in most modern societies the educa tional system has become an increasingly important marriage market, particularly for those who are highly qualified. Educational expansion in general and the rising educational participation of women in particular unintentionally have increased the rate of "assortative meeting" and assortative mating across birth cohorts. Rising educational homogamy means that social inequality is further enhanced through marriage because better (and worse) educated single men and women pool their economic and sociocultural advantages (and disadvantages) within couples. In this book we study the changing role of the educational system as a marriage market in modern societies from a cross-national comparative perspective. Using life-history data from a broad range of industrialized countries and longitudinal statistical models, we analyze the process of spouse selection in the life courses of single men and women, step by step. The countries included in this b |
出版日期 | Book 2003 |
关键词 | Institution; Nation; education; educational system; nature; rational choice; sweden |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1065-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4020-1803-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-1065-8Series ISSN 1381-3579 Series E-ISSN 2542-8977 |
issn_series | 1381-3579 |
copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003 |