scholarly journals Educational Assortative Mating and Income Dynamics in Couples: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Qian
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Spousal Influence ◽  
Educational Assortative Mating ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Gender Change

The gender-gap reversal in education could have far-reaching consequences for marriage and family lives. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and longitudinal multilevel dyad models, this study investigated how educational assortative mating shaped income dynamics in couples over the marital life course. Based on educational assortative mating, couples were grouped into three categories—educational hypergamy (wives less educated than their husbands), homogamy, and hypogamy (wives more educated than their husbands). Results showed that change in husbands’ income with marital duration was similar across couples, whereas change in wives’ income varied by educational assortative mating such that wives in educational hypogamy exhibited more positive change in income over the marital life course. The findings underscored the asymmetric nature of spousal influence and gender change in heterosexual marriages.

scholarly journals Where Are You From? Assortative Mating by Place of Origin in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAO-CHUN CHENG
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
And Gender

Previous studies showed that assortative mating occurred based on different social dimensions, such as age, education, and race or ethnicity. However, these studies ignored the potential impact of place of origin on people’s place identity and habitus and their associations with assortative mating in the United States. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), in conjunction with the Current Population Survey (CPS), this study finds a clear pattern of assortative mating based on place of origin. Moreover, the results suggest that there are regional differences in assortative mating by place of origin, especially for women. Also, the length of residence shapes people’s habitus and thus the pattern of homogeneous matching by place of origin. The significant effects of race or ethnicity and the conditions of the marriage market before marriage vary by scale of place and gender. These findings suggest that place of origin is another dimension of assortative mating.

scholarly journals The Gender Gap in Employment Hours: Do Work-Hour Regulations Matter?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liana Christin Landivar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Work Hour ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Household Allocation ◽  
Weekly Work

In all developed countries, women, especially mothers, work fewer paid hours than their spouses. However, the magnitude of the gender gap varies significantly by country, ranging from 2 to 20 hours per week in this study. Using data from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme, this article investigates whether work-hour regulations have a significant effect on household allocation of paid labour and gender work-hour inequality. Two main types of work-hour regulations are examined: standard weekly work hours and the maximum allowable weekly work hours. Results show that households in countries with shorter maximum weekly work hours had less work-hour inequality between spouses, as each additional allowable overtime hour over the standard workweek increased the work-hour gap between couples by 20 minutes. These results indicate that couples’ inequality in work hours and gender inequality in labour supply are associated with country-level work-hour regulations.

scholarly journals Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252270
Author(s):  
Seunghee Yu ◽  
Chung Choe
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Gender Differentials ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Ordered Probit Models ◽  
Disabled Workers

This paper explores the association between job satisfaction and gender for workers with disabilities, using data from the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled, which interviews officially registered persons with disabilities in Korea. To take full advantage of the longitudinal data, we apply random-effects ordered probit models to investigate the underlying factors that affect gender differentials in job satisfaction. Our findings reveal that merely different work values between women and men do not account for the significantly higher job satisfaction among women. We suggest that workers’ expectations play a role in explaining why female workers are happier in the workplace than their male counterparts; that is, holding other factors constant, women’s expectations from jobs are lower than men’s. This hypothesis is partially supported by the empirical analyses that gender differentials diminish among the highly educated workers, for whom there is less likely to be a gender gap in terms of job expectations.

scholarly journals Crossing Boundaries: "Some College" and the Role of Schools in Educational Assortative Mating

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McClendon
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Partner Choice ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Educational Assortative Mating ◽  
Using Data

As more Americans delay marriage and meet romantic partners online, schoolsmay be becoming less important for educational assortative mating. However,although fewer people meet their spouse as students, social ties formedduring college may continue to shape partner choice later in adulthood.Here I focus on young adults with “some college, no degree” to see what, ifany, marriage-market benefit is gained from exposure to highly-educatedsocial networks in college. Using data from NLSY-1997, including newlycollected postsecondary transcripts, I find young adults with “somecollege” are more likely than their less educated peers to marry a collegegraduate, especially if they attended a 4-year school. But young adultswith bachelor’s degrees still hold an advantage, even after controlling forduration of schooling. The results support the role of schools in shapingopportunities to meet partners but highlight the value of a college degreeon the marriage market.

scholarly journals Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China

Demography ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Acton Jiashi Feng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Educational Assortative Mating ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Multiplicative Models

Abstract Existing research on assortative mating has examined marriage between people with different levels of education, yet heterogeneity in educational assortative mating outcomes of college graduates has been mostly ignored. Using data from the 2010 Chinese Family Panel Study and log-multiplicative models, this study examines the changing structure and association of husbands' and wives' educational attainment between 1980 and 2010, a period in which Chinese higher education experienced rapid expansion and stratification. Results show that the graduates of first-tier institutions are less likely than graduates of lower-ranked colleges to marry someone without a college degree. Moreover, from 1980 to 2010, female first-tier-college graduates were increasingly more likely to marry people who graduated from similarly prestigious colleges, although there is insufficient evidence to draw the same conclusion about their male counterparts. This study thus demonstrates the extent of heterogeneity in educational assortative mating patterns among college graduates and the tendency for elite college graduates to marry within the educational elite.

Gender/Nationality Intersections in Attitudes Toward Gun Carry among Israeli Citizens

2021 ◽  
pp. 073112142098857
Author(s):  
Sarai B. Aharoni ◽  
Alisa C. Lewin ◽  
Amalia Sa’ar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Gender Effect ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Self Protection

The study explores how nationality and gender effect attitudes on the presence, use, and misuse of guns by security forces and civilians in Israel. Using data from a national survey ( n = 721), we find that Israelis, Jews, and Arabs have more positive attitudes toward military firearms than civilian gun carry. The vast majority agree that display of military arms increases the public sense of security. Numbers are much lower regarding civilian carry. Most respondents, Jews and Arabs, would interfere if witnessed public misuse of firearms. An intersectional analysis finds (1) a gender gap, men have higher odds of reporting a firearm in the household than women; (2) Jews have more positive attitudes toward firearms than Arabs; (3) Jewish men have more positive attitudes toward civilian carry than Jewish women. This gender gap does not appear among Arabs; (4) Jews are more favorable of self-protection as a justification to use arms than Arabs.

scholarly journals Diverging Trajectories or Parallel Pathways? An Intersectional and Life Course Approach to the Gender Earnings Gap by Race and Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 237802311987381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Doren ◽  
Katherine Y. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Growth Curve Models ◽  
Race And Education ◽  
Women's Earnings ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Annual Earnings ◽  
The Life Course

Integrating ideas about intersectionality with life course theories, we explore how trajectories of gender earnings inequality vary across race and education. Past research suggests that gender earnings gaps by race and education are narrower for more disadvantaged groups, yet it remains unknown whether these key differences amplify, decline, or remain constant over the life course. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we estimate growth curve models of annual earnings, examining differences between blacks and whites and by educational attainment in the levels and slopes of men and women’s earnings from ages 22 to 47. Findings show that holding multiple forms of gendered, racial, and/or educational advantage has an interactive effect that accumulates across life. Accordingly, the gender gap expands most with age for whites and the college-educated, where the male premium is compounded by racial and/or educational advantages.

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.

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