Partner market opportunities and union formation over the life course— A comparison of different measures

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. e2178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Eckhard ◽  
Johannes Stauder
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Partner Market

scholarly journals The Age of Independence , Revisited: Parents and Interracial Union Formation Across the Life Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Zhang ◽  
Sharon Sassler
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
The Life Course

Living Arrangements Over the Life Course

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 579-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina M. Bures
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Family Membership

Living arrangements are influenced by social and demographic trends. Changes in social norms related to marriage, childbearing, educational attainment, and women's employment have reshaped families, making residential family membership much less continuous over the life course. The increasing complexity of family living arrangements makes a life course perspective essential for understanding families. The special issue titled "Living Arrangements Over the Life Course: Families in the 21st Century" addresses several key themes that will characterize families in the 21st century, including gender and the family, union formation and dissolution, living arrangements, and family migration.

scholarly journals Mating Market and Dynamics of Union Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Corti ◽  
Stefani Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Educational Groups ◽  
Educational Assortative Mating ◽  
Low Educated ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Partner Market

AbstractThe paper investigates the relationship between structural partner market constraints and the timing and educational sorting of unions in Germany (1985–2018). We integrate the literature on the effect of the reversed gender gap in education on educational assortative mating, with a focus on mating dynamics and the measurement of the partner market over the life course. We concentrate on two particular educational groups, low-educated men and highly educated women, those with worsening mating prospects and more subject to experience hypogamous unions. Our results show that the local education-specific mating squeeze influences union formation, its timing, and educational sorting. Indeed, for the two groups, the increasing supply of highly educated women in the partner market increases the likelihood of remaining single or establishing an hypogamous union, where she is higher educated than he. In line with search theory, we find the effects of the mating squeeze to become particularly visible after people turn 30 years of age. This is true for the risk of remaining single and forming an hypogamous union. We underline the necessity to study assortative mating and union formation from a dynamic perspective, taking into account changing structural conditions during the partner search process.

Human Development in the Life Course

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Zittoun ◽  
Jaan Valsiner ◽  
Dankert Vedeler ◽  
Joao Salgado ◽  
Miguel M. Goncalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
The Life Course

Full Circles: Geographies of Women over the Life Course

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-551
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chant
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
The Life Course

Review of Friendships Through the Life Course: Oral Biographies in Old Age

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 903-904
Author(s):  
John H. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Life Course

Social Change and the Life Course: How Can They Be Linked?

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 843-844
Author(s):  
Johannes J. Huinink
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Life Course ◽  
The Life Course

Current Thinking About the Later Portion of the Life Course

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-148
Author(s):  
Marion Perlmutter
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
The Life Course
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