<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. From the analysis of data from the European Union and Swiss Labour Force Surveys over a 15-year period (1999–2013), we observe that educational homogamy did not increase across cohorts, although we find substantial differences in the degree of homogamy according to couple arrangements.</p></abstract>

We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. From the analysis of data from the European Union and Swiss Labour Force Surveys over a 15-year period (1999–2013), we observe that educational homogamy did not increase across cohorts, although we find substantial differences in the degree of homogamy according to couple arrangements.

More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the...

More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries

Published Online: Dec 19, 2017

Page range: 453 - 480

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2017-0024

Keywords
homogamy, couple arrangements, gender inequality, Europe

© 2017 Julie Falcon et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries

Published Online: Dec 19, 2017

Page range: 453 - 480

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2017-0024

Keywordshomogamy, couple arrangements, gender inequality, Europe

© 2017 Julie Falcon et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
homogamy, couple arrangements, gender inequality, Europe