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KMID : 1124020130290020167
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Korean Social Security Studies
2013 Volume.29 No. 2 p.167 ~ p.195
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The Impact of Assortative Mating on Household Income Inequality in Korea: focusing on educational and occupational assortative mating
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Seok Jae-Eun
Noh Hye-Jin
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Abstract
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This study focused on the assortative mating as a contextual factor explaining the phenomenon of intensifying income inequality and polarization in Korea. Especially as pointed out by Kalmijn(1991), the assortative mating was paid attention on moving from ascriptive assortative mating centered on social economic position of parent to accomplished assortative marriage centered on education and occupation of oneself and spouse, and the study was focused on the accomplished assortative mating. Hence, the study analyzed the effects of individual accomplished assortative marriage such as education, occupation, etc on the household income as targeting double income at economic activity ages. As considering different education level and economic activity level, the effect of the assortative mating on household income at each cohort. Also, in order to analyze the effects of the assortative mating on income inequality, the marginal effects of the educational and occupational assortative marriage was analysed through the quantile regression analysis.
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KEYWORD
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assortative mating, income inequality, educational assortative mating, occupational assortative mating, quantile regression analysis
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