Class, Race, and the Spousal Income Gap
The Effects of Family Income, Educational Attainment, and Race-Ethnicity on the Husband-Wife Income Ratio in the United States, 1980, 1990, 2000
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758613 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julio Huato (Howard Samuels Center and St. Francis College), Kathryn Woodbury Zeno (Pace University and Ramapo College of New Jersey) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-275 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764209338812 |
| OpenAlex | W1975376708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
The literature on gender economics has largely ignored the striking variation of the gender income gap across socioeconomic classes and racial and ethnic groups. Our article reports the effects of family income, educational attainment, and race-ethnicity on the ratio of the individual incomes of husbands and wives, the spousal gap, in the United States, using regression analysis on the PUMS data. We find that the higher the family income and the educational gap between husbands and wives, the larger the spousal gap. Non-White husbands (especially Blacks) are associated with significantly lower spousal gaps. Conditions shaping wives' choices --especially in relation to allocating more or less labor to their homes-have a larger impact on the spousal gap than those shaping husbands' choices. This underscores the importance of industrial and occupational desegregation, antidiscrimination in the workplace, and the provision of services that relieve wives from domestic labor in improving gender equity
Demographic economics · Desegregation · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Equity (law) · Ethnic group · Family income · Gender gap · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Race (biology) · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |