Alterations in Couples’ Earnings Following Parenthood and you may Trend into the Household members Income Inequality
Pilar Gonalons-Pons , Christine Roentgen. Schwartz , Kelly Musick; Alterations in Couples’ Income Adopting the Parenthood and Styles into the Loved ones Income Inequality. Demography ; 58 (3): 1093–1117. doi:
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The latest broadening financial resemblance of partners features led to rising money inequality across households. Grounds possess normally centered on assortative mating, but previous functions provides contended you to alterations in ladies a position and spouses’ section off paid back works keeps played a very extremely important part. We develop which try to check out the vital flipping section out of parenthood into the framing couples’ department out of a job and you may earnings. Drawing on about three U.S. in the united states member surveys, i check the latest part regarding parenthood from inside the spouses’ money correlations between 1968 and you may 2015. I examine the the amount that changes in spouses’ earnings correlations are caused by (1) alter up on entryway on wedding (assortative mating), (2) changes anywhere between wedding and parenthood, (3) transform pursuing the parenthood, and you can (4) alterations in women’s a career. (more…)