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DEMOGRAPHY
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 523-535Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2005.0028
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In what percentage of married couples do wives outearn their husbands, and, moreover how persistent are these patterns? This study systematically examined variation in point-in-time estimates across alternative measures of earnings, definitions of types of couples, and data sources and gauged the persistence of these patterns for a period of three calendar years using data from the 2000 Current Population Survey and the 1996-2000 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Among the findings are that in 19% to 30% of all married couples, wives have higher earnings than their husbands. In 60% of such couples, this arrangement persists over the three-year period; for the rest, this arrangement is transitory.
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