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Volume 52, Issue 6, Pages 1797-1823Publisher
DUKE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-015-0440-z
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Marriage; Family; Wage labor; Relative income
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R01HD43392, R01HD047283, R24HD41023]
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This article proposes explanations for the transformation of American families over the past two centuries. I describe the impact on families of the rise of male wage labor beginning in the nineteenth century and the rise of female wage labor in the twentieth century. I then examine the effects of decline in wage labor opportunities for young men and women during the past four decades. I present new estimates of a precipitous decline in the relative income of young men and assess its implications for the decline for marriage. Finally, I discuss explanations for the deterioration of economic opportunity and speculate on the impact of technological change on the future of work and families.
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