A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex‐Based Occupational Clustering
本文提出并验证了婚前为应对未来共同居住问题，男性倾向于聚集在少数职业而女性分散在更多职业的理论，并发现偏离此均衡的高学历男女面临结婚延迟、离婚率上升和收入降低。
This paper theorizes and provides evidence for the segregation of men into clustered occupations and women into dispersed occupations in advance of marriage and in anticipation of future colocation problems. Using the Decennial Census, and controlling for occupational characteristics, I find evidence of this general pattern of segregation, and also find that the minority of the highly educated men and women who depart from this equilibrium experience delayed marriage, higher divorce, and lower earnings. Results are consistent with the theory that marriage and mobility expectations foment a self‐fulfilling pattern of occupational segregation with individual departures deterred by earnings and marriage penalties.