Recent US research suggest that rising female participation may have helped worsen inter-household inequalities there, for a number of reasons. Marital educational homogamy appears to have strengthened, particularly at the top, there has been a sharp increase in married women working at the ‘top’ and apparently a decline at the ‘bottom’, the gender wage gap has narrowed more in high-education occupations, and males experiencing the most dramatic earnings erosion tend to be married to women unable to adequately compensate. The aim of this project is to understand the impact of women’s employment patterns on the distribution of income in EU countries, and on the long-term financial position (including pension incomes and assets) of women versus men. The first stage will be to explore how women’s labour supply and earnings differ across education/occupational groups, whether the labour supply and earnings of women married to high-educated men is higher and rising faster than among women married to low educated men, how female career interruptions and their income effects differ across occupational/educational groups, and the implications of changing household formation patterns including unstable partnerships.
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Women's Labour Supply and the Distribution of Income