Educational Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in the United States
Educational Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in the United States
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DOI：
10.1086/661778
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发表时间：
2011-11-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Salazar, Leire
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作者：
Breen, Richard;Salazar, Leire
本文研究了20世纪70年代末至21世纪初美国家庭收入不平等的增长如何影响教育替代性交配的变化。作者发现，这些变化对不平等产生了很小的负面影响：如果教育促进性交配模式保持在20世纪70年代的话，21世纪初的收入不平等会更严重。考虑到美国男性和女性的教育分布，教育程度的选择性交配对不平等的影响很小，而伴侣之间的教育程度排序并不能很好地代表收入排序。
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.