Job Quality and the Educational Gradient in Entry Into Marriage and Cohabitation.
Men's and women's economic resources are important determinants of marriage timing. Prior demographic and sociological literature has often measured resources in narrow terms, considering employment and earnings and not more fine-grained measures of job quality. Yet, scholarship on work and inequali...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 451 - 477 |
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