abstract: 'The rise in inequality in most industrial countries has drawn attention

  to the social and economic processes underlying it. This study examines

  how changing educational attainment and employment patterns of women

  (mainly) are impacting households'' income distribution, with Israel as a

  case study. The level of income inequality in Israel, which is one of

  the highest in the Western world, has risen significantly in recent

  decades, along with a rise in education and labor force participation,

  especially among women. Using counterfactual analysis of the Theil index

  between the years 1983 and 2008, our findings show that the share of

  highly educated households has soared, together with a rise in the share

  of fulltime dual-earner households. There has also been an increase in

  the share of doubly fortunate households: both highly educated and

  fulltime dual-earner. All these changes have contributed to the rise in

  income inequality. The study emphasizes the importance of the joint

  change in educational attainment and participation level as an important

  mechanism behind the rise in income inequality.'
affiliation: 'Herzberg-Druker, E (Corresponding Author), Univ Wisconsin, Madison,
  WI 53706 USA.

  Herzberg-Druker, Efrat, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA.

  Stier, Haya, Tel Aviv Univ, Tel Aviv, Israel.'
author: Herzberg-Druker, Efrat and Stier, Haya
author-email: 'herzbergdruk@wisc.edu

  Haya1@post.tau.ac.il'
author_list:
- family: Herzberg-Druker
  given: Efrat
- family: Stier
  given: Haya
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.04.012
eissn: 1096-0317
files: []
issn: 0049-089X
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
keywords: 'Income inequality; Educational composition of households; Households''

  employment patterns'
keywords-plus: 'RISING WAGE INEQUALITY; ASSORTATIVE MARRIAGE; ECONOMIC-INEQUALITY;

  EARNINGS INEQUALITY; UNITED-STATES; PATTERNS; TRENDS; ATTAINMENT;

  CHILDREN'
language: English
month: AUG
number-of-cited-references: '61'
orcid-numbers: Herzberg-Druker, Efrat/0000-0002-4164-3147
pages: 221+
papis_id: d5994d9bd2a43ccbfa12e049a1b56632
ref: Herzbergdruker2019familymatters
times-cited: '4'
title: 'Family matters: The contribution of households'' educational and employment
  composition to income inequality'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000476582600017
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '82'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2019'