How do marriage market conditions affect entrance into cohabitation vs. marriage?
How do marriage market conditions affect entrance into cohabitation vs. marriage?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2004.05.005
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Guzzo, KB
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作者：
Guzzo, KB
近年来，结婚率差距的扩大受到了极大的关注，重点是当地婚姻市场上适婚男子的数量。与此同时，同居现象越来越普遍，对结婚率的下降起到了一定作用。本文将婚姻市场的论点扩展到同居和婚姻联盟的形成，使用与1995年全国家庭增长调查（NSFG）相关的劳动力市场地区（LMA）水平的背景数据。研究结果表明，随着性别比例的增加，结婚的几率比保持单身或同居增加，这表明同居和婚姻是不可替代的。然而，性别比例并不能解释黑人和白人在婚姻形成方面的差异。(c)2004年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Widening gaps in marriage rates have received a great deal of attention in recent years, focusing on the availability of marriageable men in the local marriage market. At the same time, cohabitation has increased in prevalence, playing a role in declining marriage rates. This paper extends marriage market arguments to the formation of both cohabiting and marital unions, using contextual data at the Labor Market Area (LMA) level linked to the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Findings indicate that as the sex ratio increases, the odds of marriage over either remaining single or cohabiting increases, suggesting the cohabitation and marriage are not substitutable. However, the sex ratio does little to explain black-white differences in union formation. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.