L'effet de l'homogamie éducative sur les inégalités: une note méthodologique avec une illustration pour le cas français

Pierre Courtioux and Vincent Lignon ()
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Vincent Lignon: CNAF et Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

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Abstract: Following recent economic literature on the subject, the article estimates the impact of assortative mating and more particularly of educational homogamy on inequality measured by the Gini index of equivalized income. The results show that in the French case, this impact is small. They also show that an education variable has to be detailed enough in order to avoid an under-estimation of educational homogamy. Depending on the method used the impact of educational homogamy on inequality range from 0.8 to 2.5%, i.e. a much lower level than the French tax and benefit system which decreases inequality by almost 16%

Keywords: assortative mating; inequality; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I2 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2015-12
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Working Paper: L'effet de l'homogamie éducative sur les inégalités: une note méthodologique avec une illustration pour le cas français (2015)
Working Paper: L'effet de l'homogamie éducative sur les inégalités: une note méthodologique avec une illustration pour le cas français (2015)
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