Educational heterogamy and father–to–son occupational mobility in 23 industrial nations: General societal openness or compensatory strategies of reproduction?

Ultee, W.C.; Luijkx, Ruud

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“…A loglinear analysis of 18 postwar industrial nations by Ultee & Luijkx (1990) reveals that five countries experienced a decline in educational homogamy, three countries experienced an increase, while the remaining ten revealed no meaningful trend. Country-specific loglinear analyses also reveal a mixed pattern, although they do not reveal a decline in homogamy: (a) a strong increase in the United States (Mare 1991;Kalmijn 1991a), Hungary , and Germany (Blossfeld & Timm 1997); (b) a slight increase in the Netherlands (Hendrickx 1994); and (c) stability in Australia (Jones 1987) and France (Forsé & Chauvel 1995).…”

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Intermarriage and Homogamy: Causes, Patterns, Trends

1998

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People have a tendency to marry within their social group or to marry a person who is close to them in status. Although many characteristics play a role in the choice of a spouse, sociologists have most often examined endogamy and homogamy with respect to race/ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status. I first give an overview of hypotheses on the causes of endogamy and homogamy. The various hypotheses that have been suggested in the literature can be distinguished as arguments about three more general factors: (a) the preferences of marriage candidates for certain characteristics in a spouse, (b) the interference of "third parties" in the selection process, and (c) the constraints of the marriage market in which candidates are searching for a spouse. Second, I summarize empirical research by answering four questions: (a) To what extent are groups endogamous and how do groups differ in this respect? (b) How has endogamy changed over time? (c) Which factors are related to endogamy? (d) How do various dimensions of partner choice coincide? Third, I discuss strengths and weaknesses of past research. Strengths include the mass of descriptive work that has been done and the development of a multifaceted theoretical perspective which gives sociological theorizing an edge over psychological and economic theories of partner choice. Weaknesses include the lack of standardization of methods in describing patterns and trends and the relatively weak integration of empirical and theoretical work.

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“…Some authors argue that marriage choice has become increasingly based on emotional or affective considerations. Because romantic considerations often overrule status concerns, one would expect a decline in all forms of status homogamy (Ultee & Luijkx 1990). …”

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Intermarriage and Homogamy: Causes, Patterns, Trends

1998

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“…Deze maat was op de plaats, omdat opleiding gemeten als het aantal jaren met goed gevolg afgesloten onderwijs, een intervalschaal vormt. De derde fase kent een vergelijking van op odds ratio's berustende maten voor trouwen naar opleiding in 23 technologisch hoogontwikkelde samenlevingen in de jaren tachtig (Ultee & Luijkx, 1990). Die maten werden uitgerekend omdat de schaal voor opleidingshoogte, hoewel deze betrekking had op het aantal jaren met goed gevolg doorlopen onderwijs, maar vier categorieën omvatte, wat de berekening van correlatiecoëfficiënten op losse schroeven zet.…”

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Driegeneraties- en tweeoudersvragen over het opleidingsniveau van mannen en vrouwen in Nederland

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This article estimates for the Netherlands linear regression models for an individual’s level of education by bringing in parental as well as grandparental level of education. The prime question is that of the association between education in the first and third generation after holding constant education in the second generation. For the empirical analysis, we used the five available waves of the Family Survey Dutch Population as conducted in 1992-1993, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2009. Since both primary respondents and their partner were interviewed about their father, mother and offspring, we could estimate statistical models in which the educational level of all grown-up children was regressed on the educational level of both parents and all four grandparents. The results show that grandfather’s level of education has a direct effect on his grandchild’s level of education, controlled for the educational level of one of the parents. In a model with both mother’s and father’s education, no longer a direct effect of grandfather’s education is found. This suggests that the direct effect of grandfather’s education has become indirect. Furthermore, the positive effect of grandfather’s education on his grandchild’s education declines as a function of parental education. In fact, only children with low educated parents profit from a high educated grandfather.

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“…Others register stable levels of assortative mating (Breen and Salazar 2011) or differences between countries (Kalmijn 1998). Ultee and Luijkx (1990), Smits et al (1998Smits et al ( , 2000 and Hu and Qian (2016) explain country differences with the level of societal openness and development of the countries.…”

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“…For the SHP, the sample amounts to 3 343 in 2000 and to 5 497 in 2014. Previous literature on educational assortative mating has relied mostly on cross tabulations (Breen and Salzar 2010) and log-linear models (Ultee and Luijkx 1990). Studies on similarity in earnings use mostly correlations (Nakosteen et al 2004;Grotti and Scherer 2016).…”

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

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Kuhn

Suter

2017

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 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.

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Educational heterogamy and father–to–son occupational mobility in 23 industrial nations: General societal openness or compensatory strategies of reproduction?

Cited by 105 publications

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Intermarriage and Homogamy: Causes, Patterns, Trends

Intermarriage and Homogamy: Causes, Patterns, Trends

Driegeneraties- en tweeoudersvragen over het opleidingsniveau van mannen en vrouwen in Nederland

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

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