Partner Market and Union Stability in Germany

Opportunities and Constraints of the Partner Market and Educational Assortative Mating

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x20984494 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2098449

Author(s):

Johannes Stauder ◽

Tom Kossow

Keyword(s):

Assortative Mating ◽

Heterosexual Couples ◽

Opportunity Structure ◽

Educational Homogamy ◽

Educational Assortative Mating ◽

The Impact ◽

Market Density ◽

Partner Market

This study aims to determine to what extent the opportunities and restrictions of the partner market influence educational assortative mating. It also analyzes the interplay between the opportunity structure and preferences. Matching district-based partner market indicators to heterosexual couples when they move in together based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find strong effects of the opportunity structure on educational homogamy. The results further imply that the density of the supply of potential partners is more important for educational assortative mating than imbalanced supply and competition. While the impact of partner market imbalances on assortative mating is a mere effect of the opportunity structure, the effects of the partner market density of relevant and available partners in space weakly imply that homophile and maximization preferences are simultaneously at work.

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Migration and the Partner Market: How Gender-Selective Relocations Affect Regional Mating Chances in Germany

European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie ◽

10.1007/s10680-017-9422-8 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 59-86 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jan Eckhard ◽

Johannes Stauder

Keyword(s):

Partner Market

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European union: stability or instability for small periphery economies

Prague Economic Papers ◽

10.18267/j.pep.181 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Serhan Çiftçioglu

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Monetary Union ◽

Economic And Monetary Union ◽

Small Open Economies ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Wage Indexation ◽

Union Stability ◽

Monetary Instability ◽

The Eu

The main focus of this paper is to analyze the likely consequences of the possible increase in the monetary instability and decrease in the rate of wage indexation in the EU (that can result from the completion of economic and monetary union) on the macroeconomic stability of small, open economies which are in the process of integration with the EU. Such periphery countries include countries as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey and others.

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