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Title: Recessions Accelerate Trend of Wives as Breadwinners

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Key Findings Employed wives contribution to total family earnings jumped to 47 percent in 2009 from 45 percent in 2008the largest single-year increase during the past twenty-three yearsand has held steady at 47 percent in 2010 and 2011. Recessions substantially accelerate the trend of increased reliance on wives earnings. In all three recessions since 1988, annual increases in wives share of total family earnings rose substantially. Employed wives share of total family earnings is higher and more responsive to economic downturns when the husband has a high school degree or less compared with a college degree.

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Authors: Smith, Kristin

Publisher: The Carsey Institute. Paper 181

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Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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