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Title: Educational expansion, women’s earnings inequality, and household inequality in the United States

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: The United States has seen a continuing growth in family income inequality over the last four decades. This has attracted scholarly interest in inequality-inducing mechanisms behind the temporal changes in income inequality. As compared to the burgeoning interest in women’s contribution to changes in household income inequality, much less attention was paid to the trend in earnings inequality among female workers. Overall earnings inequality among women in general and female workers in particular in the United States shows a slight decline between the late 1970s and the late 2000s. This raises an interesting question of, firstly, what caused earnings inequality among female workers to decrease. It also, secondly, asks how changes in earnings inequality among women are related to changes in household income inequality. Using CPS IPUMS datasets and a counterfactual decomposition method developed by Richard Breen, we investigate whether changes in the distributions of some socio-demographic features among female workers between the two points in time were responsible for the changes in inequality, and the consequences of changes in female earnings inequality for household income inequality

Url: https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/39372/1/RC28 032019 Frankfurt book_of_abstracts_0307.pdf

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Authors: Chung, Inkwan; Chang, Jin-Wook

Conference Name: ISARC 28 Spring 2019 Frankfurt

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education, Gender

Countries: United States