Wife or frau, women do worse: A comparison of men and women in the United States and Germany after marital dissolution | Zendy

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Wife or frau, women do worse: A comparison of men and women in the United States and Germany after marital dissolution

Author(s) -

Richard V. Burkhauser,

Greg J. Duncan,

Richard Hauser,

Roland Berntsen

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061461

Subject(s) - wife , german , demographic economics , marital status , panel data , socioeconomic status , demography , economics , psychology , political science , geography , sociology , population , archaeology , law , econometrics

Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel show that in the Federal Republic of Germany, women experience even sharper drops in economic status immediately after a marital split than in the United States, while German and American men fare about the same. German social policy does little to reduce the disparities.

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