NDLI: Educational Pairings, Motherhood, and Women’s Relative Earnings in Europe

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Author	Bavel, Jan Klesment, Martin
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	As a consequence of the reversal of the gender gap in education, the female partner in a couple now typically has as much as or more education compared with the male partner in most Western countries. This study addresses the implications for the earnings of women relative to their male partners in 16 European countries. Using the 2007 and 2011 rounds of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (N = 58,292), we investigate the extent to which international differences in women’s relative earnings can be explained by educational pairings and their interaction with the motherhood penalty on women’s earnings, by international differences in male unemployment, or by cultural gender norms. We find that the newly emerged pattern of hypogamy is associated with higher relative earnings for women in all countries and that the motherhood penalty on relative earnings is considerably lower in hypogamous couples, but neither of these findings can explain away international country differences. Similarly, male unemployment is associated with higher relative earnings for women but cannot explain away the country differences. Against expectations, we find that the hypogamy bonus on women’s relative earnings, if anything, tends to be stronger rather than weaker in countries that exhibit more conservative gender norms.
Starting Page	2331
Ending Page	2349
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00703370
Journal	Demography
Volume Number	54
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15337790
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2017-10-30
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Marriage Educational assortative mating Income Gender roles Educational inequality Demography Sociology Population Economics Medicine/Public Health Geography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography

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