The social significance of homogamy

Changing Relationships

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-92

  Brynin, Malcolm ^a   Longhi, Simonetta ^a   Pérez, Álvaro Martínez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203884591     Document Type: Chapter

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