abstract: '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 among married

  couples from 1967 to 2005. The results indicate that increases in

  earnings inequality would have been about 25\%-30\% lower than observed

  in the absence of changes in the association, depending on the

  inequality measure used. Three components of these changes and how they

  vary across the earnings distribution are explored.'
affiliation: 'Schwartz, CR (Corresponding Author), Univ Wisconsin, Dept Sociol, Madison,
  WI 53706 USA.

  Univ Wisconsin, Dept Sociol, Madison, WI 53706 USA.'
author: Schwartz, Christine R.
author_list:
- family: Schwartz
  given: Christine R.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1086/651373
eissn: 1537-5390
files: []
issn: 0002-9602
journal: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION; INCOME INEQUALITY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

  FAMILY-STRUCTURE; SOCIAL-MOBILITY; WAGE INEQUALITY; WIVES EARNINGS;

  UNITED-STATES; 2 DECADES; TRENDS'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '70'
pages: 1524-1557
papis_id: e2ed13066de09ecf8bf43b53189d8582
ref: Schwartz2010earningsinequality
times-cited: '168'
title: Earnings Inequality and the Changing Association between Spouses' Earnings
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000276104500005
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '60'
volume: '115'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2010'