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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn
'Hypergamy' I've heard of. 'Men's affinity to stay in rural areas' is a new and somewhat bizarre one on me.
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Young women outnumber young men in urban areas throughout the Western
world. Assuming that cities offer better labor markets for skilled workers,
urban areas should attract skilled workers of both sexes. However, this
explanation alone would predict a counterfactual surplus of men in urban
areas. This paper has argued that the key to this puzzle may lie in asymme-
tries in the marriage market. In particular, men pay women for marriage.
Thus, urban areas may offer women not only a better job market, but also a
better marriage market, i.e., men with higher incomes. Swedish municipality-
level data for the ages 25–34 ad 35–44 are consistent with the second
explanation. High male incomes are associated with more women for both
age groups, but more so for the younger age group, consistent with the
hypothesis that younger women are particularly prized.
While men out-earn women at all ages, judging by the sex ratios, young
women aged 25–44 live in richer municipalities. Whether this means that women also enjoy higher consumption than men in that age group remains
unclear, but the findings are suggestive of the importance of partnering and
marriage in equalizing male and female consumption.
A surplus of women in cities may be a geographic manifestation of the
general phenomenon of hypergyny, that is, women’s marrying ‘‘up’’.
I should have phrased it unskilled mens affinity. As in men that arent doing skilled labour are better staying rural where they actually have some value. In urban areas they are just one of many but in rural areas they are more special and therefor have a higher chance of attracting a woman.