Marriage Market Segmentation and Both-Sex Marriage Squeeze in Counties
In Chinese central counties,there exists the phenomenon of both-sex marriage squeeze,which has changed society and academic circle's traditional cognition of"leftover women in the cities"and"bachelors in the rural areas".According to the findings,under the infuence of mate-choice preferences,the marriage market is segmented into several sub-markets,and the structural constraints would make it difficult or impossible for marriageable people to intermarry across the boundaries of sub-markets.Combining the perspectives of preference structure and reality structure,this study finds that different marriage sub-markets face different types of marriage squeeze due to the differences in marriageable population's mate-choice preferences,marriage resources and demographic structure,which ultimately lead to the phenomenon of both-sex marriage squeeze within a region.The phenomenon of"marriage market segmentation"is a new explanatory framework for both-sex marriage squeeze,and it can also help to capture the changes in marriage culture and values.
Marriage MarketMarket SegmentationGender DifferencesMarriage Squeeze
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