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  • A long-standing theory in family demography points out that marriage rates for both men and women are affected by the number of suitable marriage partners available in the local marriage market. In its most basic form, the marriage squeeze hypothesis holds that marriage prospects are lower if the number of unmarried persons of the desired age is low. We propose to update the concept of the marriage squeeze in ways that make it more relevant for partnership and family formation today. This entails at least two things. First, given the increasing importance of unmarried cohabitation and given the fact that a growing proportion of children are born outside marriage in Europe, the concept and idea of the "marriage squeeze" should be broadened to include the effects of age-specific sex ratio imbalances on the "mating market" rather than on the marriage market only. That is: we should incorporate unmarried cohabitation. Second, education should be added to the dimensions of age and sex to quantify the mating squeeze in a more meaningful way. The expansion of higher education among women implies that women who want to find a male partner with the same or a higher level of educational attainment would increasingly experience an education-specific mating squeeze. Therefore, this paper reviews ways of measuring the education-specific mating squeeze and presents time series of measurements based on alternative methods and two different sources: the European Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Eurostat official statistics on population by five years age groups and sex. (xsd:string)
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