abstract: 'Over recent decades, the rise in female labor market participation and

  the increase in ``atypical{''''} employment arrangements have brought

  about a steady decline in traditional ``male breadwinner{''''} households

  and an increasing number of dual-earner households. Against this

  backdrop, the present paper investigates how different household

  contexts-ranging from traditional ``male breadwinner{''''} households to

  those challenging this model through joint contributions to household

  income-affect household members'' subjective evaluations of the justice

  of their personal income. In the first step, we derive three criteria

  used by individuals to evaluate the justice of personal earnings:

  compensation for services rendered, coverage of basic needs, and the

  opportunity to earn social approval. In the second step, we apply

  considerations from household economics and new approaches from gender

  research to explain why men''s and women''s evaluations of justice are

  determined to a considerable degree by the specific situation within

  their household. The assumptions derived regarding gender-specific

  patterns in justice attitudes are then tested on longitudinal data from

  the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The results support our

  central thesis that dual-earner households both reinforce and undermine

  gender-specific patterns in the evaluation of personal earnings. These

  patterns are undermined because women in dual-income households tend to

  have higher income expectations that challenge the existing gender wage

  gap. At the same time, gender-specific patterns are reinforced because

  men evaluate the justice of their personal income in relation to their

  ability to fulfill traditional gender norms. (C) 2011 International

  Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification

  and Mobility. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Liebig, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Bielefeld, Dept Sociol, SFB Heterogene
  Inequal 882, POB 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany.

  Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten, Univ Bielefeld, Dept Sociol, SFB Heterogene Inequal
  882, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany.

  Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Juergen, DIW Berlin German Inst Econ Res, Socio Econ Panel
  Study SOEP, D-10117 Berlin, Germany.

  Schupp, Juergen, Free Univ Berlin, Inst Sociol, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.'
author: Liebig, Stefan and Sauer, Carsten and Schupp, Juergen
author-email: 'stefan.liebig@uni-bielefeld.de

  carsten.sauer@uni-bielefeld.de'
author_list:
- family: Liebig
  given: Stefan
- family: Sauer
  given: Carsten
- family: Schupp
  given: Juergen
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2011.12.004
eissn: 1878-5654
files: []
issn: 0276-5624
journal: RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY
keywords: 'Perceived justice of earnings; Dual earner couples; Gender-specific

  evaluation patterns; SOEP'
keywords-plus: 'EFFORT-REWARD IMBALANCE; INEQUALITY; ALLOCATION; MONEY; SEGREGATION;

  DIVISION; STATES; MODEL; WORK; END'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '52'
orcid-numbers: 'Liebig, Stefan/0000-0002-9977-6874

  Schupp, Juergen/0000-0001-5273-643X

  Sauer, Carsten/0000-0002-8090-6886'
pages: 219-232
papis_id: 34ad86b480ab4aeff5bec4a417e56aa5
ref: Liebig2012justiceearnings
researcherid-numbers: 'Liebig, Stefan/D-4785-2013

  Schupp, Juergen/D-2721-2011

  '
times-cited: '11'
title: The justice of earnings in dual-earner households
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000311914900006
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '20'
volume: '30'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2012'