What does economic homogamy mean? An application to West Germany

De quoi l’homogamie économique est-elle le signe ? Une application à l’Allemagne de l’Ouest

Marion Goussé (), Nicolas Jacquemet () and Jean-Marc Robin ()
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Marion Goussé: CREST - Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies [Bloomington] - Indiana University [Bloomington] - Indiana University System
Nicolas Jacquemet: PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Marc Robin: ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Economic homogamy is a well-documented fact in demography. The preferred interpretation of this phenomenon is a preference for "entre-soi," but the characteristics of the spouses in a household condition not only their satisfaction in being together, but also their decisions on the division of labor. In this article, we present an approach that encompasses both the process of couple formation, the sharing of resources within the household, and the complementarity of spouses in couple activities. Studying German data from 2013 to 2019, we show that wage homogamy is concentrated at the top of the distribution, that education has a very important weight in spousal complementarities, and that wages and education play a similar role in household income-sharing arrangements.

Date: 2024-02
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Published in Revue Economique, 2024, 51 (1), pp.177-209. ⟨10.3917/reco.751.0177⟩

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