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abstract: 'Men and women have become increasingly similar in their education,
employment and earnings over recent decades. It has been argued that
these changes have implications for economic inequality, not least
because couples tend to be formed by persons with similar traits. Given
the family''s role in pooling and redistributing resources, increased
equality within households may lead to the accumulation of either
favorable or unfavorable situations. This has been expected to increase
inequality between households. We investigate the extent to which the
increased similarity in partners'' employment participation and earnings
can account for changes in income inequality.
We use LIS data for Denmark, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US from the
mid-19805 to the mid-2000s and employ decomposition techniques of the
Theil index. We enrich the existing literature by providing
internationally comparative evidence for a long time period up to more
recent dates, and propose an innovative method to account for effects of
employment and earnings similarity independently from changes in the
overall earnings distribution.
In contrast to the expectations, we show that an increased similarity
among partners does not augment inequality to a relevant degree, and
that the inflow of women in employment contributed to reducing
inequality among households rather than augmenting it. Observed
increases in inequality are instead driven by the increased polarization
between high- and low-income families and by changes in the income
dispersion within family types, suggesting that important social
stratifiers are at work other than gender. Despite key institutional
differences, this holds true for all five countries. (C) 2016 Elsevier
Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Scherer, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Trento, Via Verdi 26, I-38122
Trento, Italy.
Grotti, Raffaele; Scherer, Stefani, Univ Trento, Via Verdi 26, I-38122 Trento, Italy.'
author: Grotti, Raffaele and Scherer, Stefani
author-email: stefani.scherer@unitn.it
author_list:
- family: Grotti
given: Raffaele
- family: Scherer
given: Stefani
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2016.06.001
eissn: 1878-5654
files: []
issn: 0276-5624
journal: RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY
keywords: 'Income inequality; Gender equality; Labor market participation;
Earnings'' similarity; Assortative mating; Household change'
keywords-plus: 'INCOME INEQUALITY; ASSORTATIVE MARRIAGE; EARNINGS INEQUALITY; WIVES
EARNINGS; TRENDS; ATTAINMENT'
language: English
month: SEP
number-of-cited-references: '60'
pages: 13-26
papis_id: d9e0a47da8101d71094419316353aff4
ref: Grotti2016doesgender
times-cited: '19'
title: Does gender equality increase economic inequality? Evidence from five countries
2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000383816500002
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '51'
volume: '45'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2016'