Wives' Work and Family Income Mobility

Bradbury, Katharine L.; Katz, Jane

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“…With highly educated married women's employment–population ratios reaching levels of over 80 percent in some age groups, there is less room for further increases to extend a moderating influence on the growth of family earnings inequality. In addition, existing evidence (e.g., Bradbury and Katz, 2004) suggests a close link between earnings mobility of families and measures of market work behavior. This is a topic beyond the reach of the current paper.…”

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Earnings Inequality, Labour Supply and Schooling in Husband–wife Families

Pencavel

2007

Bulletin of Econ Res

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This paper describes the association between market work and earnings inequality across families over the life cycle and over calendar time with special attention to the different experiences of collegeeducated and high-school-educated people. A concise and effective accounting framework is developed that allows for an assessment of the effect of the growing market employment of married women on family earnings inequality. Applying this framework to pseudo-panel data from successive Current Population Surveys indicates that the increase in wives' employment has diminished the growth in family earnings inequality especially for well-educated couples. Inferences about the level and change in earnings inequality depend on the degree of labor market attachment of the people studied especially in the case of wives.

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Earnings Inequality, Labour Supply and Schooling in Husband–wife Families

Pencavel

2007

Bulletin of Econ Res

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“…The labor force participation of wives has been critical to the story of mobility. Recent research has found that families where wives had high and rising employment rates, work hours, and pay were more likely to move up the income ladder or maintain their position, rather than fall down the ladder (Bradbury and Katz, 2004). But, even the large increase in labor supply of women (and mothers, in particular) has not been sufficient to counterbalance declining mobility overall.…”

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Unequal Fortunes, Unstable Households: Has Rising Inequality Contributed to Economic Troubles for Households in the USA?

Boushey¹,

Weller²

2006

Wages, Employment, Distribution and Growth

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The distribution of national income between capital and labor has become more unequal as has the distribution within labor. At the same time that inequality rose, consumer debt and household economic distress grew, too. The evidence on a positive link between rising inequality and innovation is not supported by the data. The data either suggest no connection or a potential negative link. In comparison, the link between growing inequality and aggregate demand is somewhat ambiguous. One way to clarify this ambiguity is the possibility that debt has increased and that it has increased more among low income households, particularly in the form of credit cards and non-bank credit. We find that credit card debt is especially sensitive to changes in inequality and that rising inequality may thus have contributed to rising personal bankruptcies.

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“Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States

Boushey¹

2008

Feminist Economics

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In the United States, a recent spate of popular media attention has focused on whether mothers, especially highly educated mothers in their thirties, are increasingly “opting out” of employment. This paper uses data from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Survey (ASEC) to examine whether children cause women to exit employment. This paper finds that the “child effect” on women's employment has fallen since the end of the 1970s. The child effect was -21.8 percentage points in 1979 and has fallen consistently over the last two decades to -12.7 percentage points in 2005. Between 2000 and 2005, the child effect grew from -11.1 to -12.7, but the change was statistically insignificant. Recent declines in women's employment may be more an effect of the weak labor market for all women, mothers and non-mothers, rather than an increase in mothers voluntarily choosing to exit employment.Women's employment, work and family, mother's employment, JEL Codes: J22, J16,

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Wives' Work and Family Income Mobility

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Earnings Inequality, Labour Supply and Schooling in Husband–wife Families

Earnings Inequality, Labour Supply and Schooling in Husband–wife Families

Unequal Fortunes, Unstable Households: Has Rising Inequality Contributed to Economic Troubles for Households in the USA?

“Opting out?” The effect of children on women's employment in the United States

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