Almar, Frederik
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Friedrich, Benjamin
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Reynoso, Ana
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Schulz, Bastian
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Vejlin, Rune
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Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2023 erstellt
Beschreibung:
This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of marriage market types based on the starting wages and wage growth trajectories associated with educational programs: ambition types. We find a substantial increase in sorting by educational ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with the commonly used level of education. Hence, the mapping between education and marriage-market types matters crucially for conclusions about the role of marital sorting in rising income inequality