<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss Labour Force Survey and the Swiss Household Panel. The analysis disentangles the effects of educational expansion from mating patterns and incorporates not only couples, but also singles. Results show an increasing level of assortative mating both for education and for wages. For wage homogamy, selection is more important than adaptation.</p></abstract>

This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss Labour Force Survey and the Swiss Household Panel. The analysis disentangles the effects of educational expansion from mating patterns and incorporates not only couples, but also singles. Results show an increasing level of assortative mating both for education and for wages. For wage homogamy, selection is more important than adaptation.

Do Opposites Attract? Educational Assortative Mating and Dynamics of Wage Homogamy in Switzerland, 1992–2014

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss...

Do Opposites Attract? Educational Assortative Mating and Dynamics of Wage Homogamy in Switzerland, 1992–2014

Published Online: Dec 19, 2017

Page range: 567 - 586

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2017-0028

Keywords
educational expansion, assortative mating, hourly wages, homogamy, cohabitation

© 2017 Laura Ravazzini et al., published by De Gruyter Open

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

Do Opposites Attract? Educational Assortative Mating and Dynamics of Wage Homogamy in Switzerland, 1992–2014

Published Online: Dec 19, 2017

Page range: 567 - 586

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2017-0028

Keywordseducational expansion, assortative mating, hourly wages, homogamy, cohabitation

© 2017 Laura Ravazzini et al., published by De Gruyter Open

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

Keywords
educational expansion, assortative mating, hourly wages, homogamy, cohabitation