Spitzenpfeil, Martin and Andress, Hans-Juergen (2014). Is rising income inequality a result of an increase of homogamous partnerships? A decomposition analysis based on SOEP data (1985-2011). Koln. Z. Soziol. Sozialpsych., 66 (4). S. 575 - 602. WIESBADEN: SPRINGER VIEWEG-SPRINGER FACHMEDIEN WIESBADEN GMBH. ISSN 1861-891X
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The increase in German income inequality since the 1980s has attracted considerable scientific and political attention but remained largely unexplained. A frequently voiced hypothesis assumes that the trend towards educationally homogamous partnerships is a crucial factor in this development. Whereas in an educationally heterogamous household economic advantages and disadvantages offset each other, the homogamous household aggravates inequalities by accumulating relative (dis-)advantages. This hypothesis is put to an empirical test. First, a household typology is derived from the cross-tabulation of spousesE1/4 educational qualifications. The effect of educational expansion and mating preferences on the distribution of household types is estimated using log-linear models. In a second step, weights derived from these models are used to estimate income inequality in three counterfactual scenarios. It turns out that educational expansion and mating preferences at best have only a marginal effect on West German income inequality, which-contrary to the expectations-decreases income inequality.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-421629 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11577-014-0290-5 | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Koln. Z. Soziol. Sozialpsych. | ||||||||||||
| Volume: | 66 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 575 - 602 | ||||||||||||
| Date: | 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | SPRINGER VIEWEG-SPRINGER FACHMEDIEN WIESBADEN GMBH | ||||||||||||
| Place of Publication: | WIESBADEN | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1861-891X | ||||||||||||
| Language: | German | ||||||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/42162 |
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