Changes on the marriage market in the Republic of Macedonia
Changes on the marriage market in the Republic of Macedonia

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the conditions on the marriage market in Macedonia. Firstly, we explain the economic approachеs of studying the marriage market and then the paper evaluates the population structures and its ratios according to age, sex and marital status in the Republic of Macedonia. Aggregate data about population structure by sex and marital status from the census years 1994 and 2002, and data from labor force survey from 2012 have been used to estimate the relevant gender ratios and imbalance. Then, we have described the gender imbalances and discuss their implications for Macedonia’s marriage market. We have estimated that in the future there will be more males in Macedonia who will not be able to find women. With the aim for the future implications for the Macedonian marriage market to be understood more precisely, at the end of the paper we have calculated SMAM according to Hajnal method on a base of 2012 age register data for single males and females in the Republic of Macedonia. The results show that there is smaller reduction of singles for men than for women.

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