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‘Birds of a Feather Flock Together’: The Impact of Choice of Spouse on Family Labor Income Inequality
Author(s) -
Aslaksen Iulie,
Wennemo Tom,
Aaberge Rolf
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2005.00311.x
Subject(s) - economics , flock , flocking (texture) , spouse , labour economics , inequality , demographic economics , economic inequality , gini coefficient , sociology , biology , mathematics , paleontology , mathematical analysis , materials science , anthropology , composite material
. This paper analyzes to what extent the rise in women's labor force participation has led to ‘flocking together’, i.e. whether women with high labor income tend to be married to men with high labor income, or vice versa. Based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient and a related index for the extent of ‘flocking together’ applied to labor income data for Norway for the period 1973–97, we find a tendency for ‘flocking together’ for all married couples, and married couples with two labor incomes.