Measures of inequality, assortative matching in the UK & the effect on within & between household inequality of increased marital sorting by education

英国不平等、选型匹配的衡量标准

• 批准号: 1864827
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1864827
• 关键词: Measures; inequality; assortative; matching; UK

Inequality is measured at the household level and public policy is based on these measures. Ifhouseholds pool their resources entirely then this measure will accurately identify disparitiesbetween groups in society. If not, current measures of inequality could understate the problem byignoring disparities within households. Participation in UK university education has increasedsubstantially from 30% in the early 1990s to 48% in 2014/15, the largest increases being amongwomen (House of Commons Library 2016). It is possible that more people are finding partners withsimilar levels of education to themselves. This could have caused inequality within households todecrease as earning potential of both partners is similar, which though reducing the disparitybetween measures is still worth investigating.

不平等是在家庭一级衡量的，公共政策是以这些衡量标准为基础的。如果家庭完全集中他们的资源，那么这一衡量标准将准确地识别社会中不同群体之间的差异。如果不是这样的话，当前的不平等衡量标准可能会忽视家庭内部的差异，从而低估了问题的严重性。英国大学教育参与率从20世纪90年代初的30%大幅增加到2014/15年度的48%，其中增幅最大的是女性(下议院图书馆2016年)。有可能越来越多的人正在寻找与自己教育水平相近的伴侣。这可能会导致家庭内部的不平等减少，因为两个伴侣的收入潜力相似，尽管缩小衡量标准之间的差异仍然值得调查。