RACE, EDUCATION AND OCCUPATION PATTERNS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASSORTATIVE MARRIAGE AND EARNINGS INEQUALITY FOR COHORTS IN BRAZIL

The study seeks to advance and contribute to the debate in several ways: investigating the extent and patterns of marital assortative mating, as well as the changes in family structures in Brazil; discussing whether, how and how changes in the patterns of assortative mating marital and family structures affect income inequality in recent decades in Brazil. The analysis exploits the potential of microdata from household surveys in several particular aspects. The rotating panel of the Monthly Employment Survey (PME) from 1982 to 2012 follow transitions (in labor market participation, income and type of occupational structure) which determine patterns of social mobility, according to different family structures and patterns of marital assortative mating. Samples are restricted to individuals 25 to 60 years old, divided into triennial cohorts followed over time. Then, the implications of changes and / or permanence of the identified patterns of living arrangements and marital assortative mating in terms of the distribution of labor income and household income are assessed using a model of quantile regressions. The main question is the extent to which barriers to marriage between educational groups are responsible for differences in income between these groups.