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KMID : 0613620180380040431
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Health Social Welfare Review
2018 Volume.38 No. 4 p.431 ~ p.464
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Changes in Spouses’ Educational Pairings and Marriage Behavior: Focusing on Birth Cohort
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Shin Yoon-Jeong
Park Sin-A
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Abstract
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During the last decades, the level of educational attainment has increased to a great extent in Korea like in all developed countries and most countries in the world. Well-educated men are still highly valued in the marriage market, but today they are not as much sought after as they used to be. The increase in the educational attainment for Koreans, especially for women, has changed the characteristics of marriage. Hypergamy was the dominant marriage norm; now Korean couples are homogamous or even hypogamous in their marriage pattern. The difference in age between husbands and wives decreased as women’s age at first marriage increased. Husbands were often at least 4 years older than their wives before the 1980’s; now it’s often the case that women marry men their age or younger. Although husbands and wives have become much more equal in terms of educational attainment and age, women-men disparities are still prevalent in the labor market and housework. Finally, this study suggests that it is necessary to create gender equal environments and policy system for diverse families.
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KEYWORD
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Education Achievement Gap, Homogamy, Heterogamy
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