SOC 3371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medes, The Marriage Market
12 Nov 2020
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Technological changes: advances in communications and transportation. Loss of skilled and semi-skilled jobs to developing countries. Polarization: growth of job opportunities at the top and bottom of the job market but a lessening of opportunities in the middle. Family inequality: extent to which some families obtain more income and wealth than do others. Families that are doing well are headed by married, well-educated couples. Families that are not doing well are increasingly headed by cohabiting couples or single parents: most do not possess a college education. Diverging demographics: age at marriage, childbearing outside of marriage, the marriage market, divorce, putting the differences together. Catch-up marriage: displayed by individuals with four-year college degrees, until age 25, relatively few are likely to marry, by age 30, they are slightly more likely to have married than are the less educated. College-educated women wait to have children until after they are married.
