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The issue of occupational and educational homogamy has recently enjoyed a renewal of interest in the field of social stratification research (Mare 1991; Smeenk 1998; Smiths et al. 1998). During the 70s and 80s the study of the partner’s similarity with regard to education and occupation has been mainly a sub-field within the research on intergenerational social mobility: the aim was to disentangle the mobility that takes place through the marriage market and the mobility that takes place through labor market (Erikson, Goldthorpe 1992). In the last years, however, many scholars have focussed directly on the process of family formation as an autonomous lens to explore the properties of the social structure of different countries. Thus, the process of assortative mating has been investigated as an indicator of the level of closure or openness of a society. The more frequent marriages between persons with different (similar) social resources are, the more open (closed) a society is said to be (Ultee, Luijkx 1990).
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Bernardi, F. (2003). Who Marries whom in Italy?. In: Blossfeld, HP., Timm, A. (eds) Who Marries Whom?. European Studies of Population, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1065-8_6
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