Beyond the local marriage market

Ineke Maas and Richard Zijdeman
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Ineke Maas: Universiteit Utrecht
Richard Zijdeman: Universiteit Utrecht

Demographic Research, 2010, vol. 23, issue 33, 933-962

Abstract: This study examines whether the increase of geographical heterogamy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is related to modernization. Specifically, we test whether mass communication and mass transport enhanced the likelihood of a geographically heterogamous marriage as well as the distance over which heterogamous marriages took place. Furthermore, we study whether modernization decreased the relationship between social background and geographical heterogamy. We employ individual and municipality level data of some 30,000 marriages in over 40 municipalities in the Dutch province Overijssel between 1823 and 1922. The results from our multi-level analyses suggest that mass communication was more important than mass transport.

Keywords: migration; geographical homogamy; status homogamy; modernization; mass communication; mass transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.33

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