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Kuhn, Ursina

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Kuhn, Ursina
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Post-doctorante
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/963
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0000-0002-0348-7796

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  • Publication
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    Do opposites attract? Educational assortative mating and dynamics of wage homogamy in Switzerland 1992-2014
    (2017-12-11)
    Ravazzini, Laura 
    ;
    Kuhn, Ursina 
    ;
    Suter, Christian 
    This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss Labour Force Survey and the Swiss Household Panel. The analysis disentangles the effects of educational expansion from mating patterns and incorporates not only couples, but also singles. Results show an increasing level of assortative mating both for education and for wages. For wage homogamy, selection is more important than adaptation.
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    The impact of assortative mating on income inequality in Switzerland
    (FORS, 2017)
    Kuhn, Ursina 
    ;
    Ravazzini, Laura 
    Homogamy is one of the possible drivers of income inequality in society. This study analyses the influence of homogamy in partners’ earnings on income inequality in Switzerland using data of the Swiss Household Panel from 1999 to 2015. The first part monitors homogamy in educational levels, parental education, hourly wages and realised yearly earnings using correlation coefficients. The second part estimates the impact of assortative mating on income inequality using counterfactual simulations. By focusing not only on realised earnings but also on hourly wages, we can distinguish between the effect of homogamy from the effects of labour supply adjustments. In addition, we take into account the selection into partnership. Results show a very weak correlation between partners’ realised earnings. The observed Gini coefficient of realised earnings is not different from the Gini in a scenario where partners match independently of their earnings. Two processes explain these results. First, there is relatively little homogamy in hourly wages. Second, adjustments of labour supply to partner’s characteristics have an equalising effect that can offset the impact of homogamy.