I wonder about the change in marriage dynamics here. Suppose you have a decade of fellows who, due to bad luck, are on a low-earning streak compared to those i

I wonder about the change in marriage dynamics here. Suppose you have a decade of fellows who, due to bad luck, are on a low-earning streak compared to those in the preceding years. Would this add incentive for the women of the right age, from the current decade, to marry men from the preceding "block"? Alternatively, suppose all earnings are down, which means that relatively everybody is still about the same, within the current decade "block". Then women won't have much incentive to marry the older men. But I think the previous case is more likely. Then we will have some kind of a gap in M/F distributions among the age groups. How would the current decade block's males adapt? When the women of the subsequent decade block enter the workforce, the males from the current block will have to compete with the males in the next block as well, but won't have much advantage from greater salary. So it looks like a slow correction, a loss, to me, i.e. there will simply be an increased number of bachelors in this block.