Earnings Inequality and the Changing Association between Spouses’ Earnings
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Earnings Inequality and the Changing Association between Spouses' Earnings.
Increases in the association between spouses' earnings have the potential to increase inequality as marriages increasingly consist of two high-earning or two low-earning partners. This article uses log-linear models and data from the March Current Population Survey to describe trends in the association between spouses' earnings and estimate their contribution to growing earnings inequality amon...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Sociology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-9602,1537-5390
DOI: 10.1086/651373