Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina

We use the decomposition method of (Greenwood et al., 2014) to assess the contribution of Assortative Mating to household income inequality for Argentina. We estimate the Gini coefficient and contingency tables for for spouses’ educational attainment in order to simulate the outcomes of random matin...

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Autor principal: Funes Leal, Víctor Exequiel
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Publicado: 2015
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Ciencias Económicas
assortative mating
income distribution
female labor supply
gender wage gap
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1702432024-09-18T04:10:21Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170243 Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina Funes Leal, Víctor Exequiel 2015-11 2015 2024-09-17T12:53:42Z en Ciencias Económicas assortative mating income distribution female labor supply gender wage gap We use the decomposition method of (Greenwood et al., 2014) to assess the contribution of Assortative Mating to household income inequality for Argentina. We estimate the Gini coefficient and contingency tables for for spouses’ educational attainment in order to simulate the outcomes of random mating. We find that Assortative Mating plays a minor role in the determination of household income inequality, despite explaining about 10% of inequality, the results have very little robustness to changes in parameters and are also at odds with values of a number of sorting indicators. En este trabajo se busca estudiar cual es el impacto del emparejamiento selectivo sobre la distribución del ingreso total familiar en Argentina. Con éste objetivo se utiliza el método de microdescomposición de (Greenwood y col., 2014), el cual se basa en el coeficiente de Gini y las tablas de contingencia de la distribución de los niveles educativos de cada cónyuge para las parejas casadas para simular los resultados que surgirían del emparejamiento aleatorio. El resultado obtenido es que el emparejamiento selectivo sólo cumple un rol secundario en la determinación de la desigualdad del ingreso total familiar, porque a pesar que el método afirma que explica casi el 10% de la magnitud de la desigualdad, éste resultado carece de robustez a cambios en parámetros y, además, el cálculo de una serie de indicadores de selectividad contradice los resultados del método. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
assortative mating
income distribution
female labor supply
gender wage gap
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assortative mating
income distribution
female labor supply
gender wage gap
Funes Leal, Víctor Exequiel
Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
assortative mating
income distribution
female labor supply
gender wage gap
description We use the decomposition method of (Greenwood et al., 2014) to assess the contribution of Assortative Mating to household income inequality for Argentina. We estimate the Gini coefficient and contingency tables for for spouses’ educational attainment in order to simulate the outcomes of random mating. We find that Assortative Mating plays a minor role in the determination of household income inequality, despite explaining about 10% of inequality, the results have very little robustness to changes in parameters and are also at odds with values of a number of sorting indicators.
format Objeto de conferencia
Objeto de conferencia
author Funes Leal, Víctor Exequiel
author_facet Funes Leal, Víctor Exequiel
author_sort Funes Leal, Víctor Exequiel
title Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina
title_short Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina
title_full Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina
title_fullStr Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality in Argentina
title_sort assortative mating and household income inequality in argentina
publishDate 2015
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