Expansión educativa e inmigración internacional en España : cambios en la formación de la pareja

This article analyses patterns and trends in educational assortative mating and intermarriage of Spanish couples born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. We examine those changes in a context of educational expansion and dramatic increase of foreign population in Spain since the mid-nineties. The most notable trends are the decrease of global homogamy levels across cohorts, which contrasts with the increasing intensity of homogamy among the more educated; the incipient extinction of the traditional female hypergamic pattern; and the differences observed among the different groups of foreigners regarding their assortative mating patterns.