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Title: Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: What is the relationship between family structure and economic inequality? Family structures in Europe and the Americas have changed and marriage has declined since the mid-1990s (OECD 2016a). Moreover, increasing economic inequality in these countries has become the object of considerable concern among scholars, policymakers, and journalists. The conversation about inequality, however, has not systematically focused on the ways in which changes in family structure may be connected to economic inequality, both as a consequence and a cause of this inequality. Existing debate has often unfolded as though the economic and the cultural changes are two independent events: Progressives have focused on the economic causes of changing family structures, while conservatives have stressed the cultural and policy roots of these changes. Underlying both are not fully . . .

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Authors: Cahn, Naomi R.; Carbone, June; DeRose, Laurie F.; Wilcox, Bradford W.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Pages: 327

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Work, Family, and Time

Countries: United States