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Title: Emparejamiento selectivo y desigualdad en Argentina
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: This thesis evaluates the impact of assortative mating over two very closely linked variables: female labor supply and family income inequality. To attain this objec- tive, three methods are used, those of Cancian and Reed (1999), Bredemeier and Juessen (2013) and Greenwood et al. (2014) in order to decompose the effect of a greater selectivity in couple formation over working hours by women or family income inequality measured with the Gini index and the coefficient of variation of total family income. In all three cases cases it is found that assortative mating plays a minor role in the determination of variations in both variables, because these can be attributed to other factors (lower fertility, reductions in the wage gap and others). Moreover, I show that variations in sorting are minimal in the period used, regardless of the indicator used.
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Authors: Leal, Víctor, F
Institution: Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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Degree: Maestría en Economía
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Pages: 77
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Countries: Argentina