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  • In Western countries, the distribution of relative incomes within marriages tends to be skewed in a remarkable way. Husbands usually do not only earn more than their female partners, but there is also a striking discontinuity in their relative contributions to the household income at the 50/50 point: many wives contribute just a bit less than or as much as their husbands, but few contribute more. This 'cliff' has been interpreted as evidence that men and women avoid situations where a wife would earn more than her husband, since this would go against traditional gender norms. In this paper, we use a simulation approach to model marriage markets and demonstrate that a cliff in the relative income distribution can also emerge without such avoidance. We feed our simulations with income data from 27 European countries. Results show that a cliff can emerge from inequalities in men’s and women’s average incomes, even if they do not attach special meaning to a situation in which a wife earns more than her husband. (xsd:string)
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  • 2020 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 10.1007/s10680-019-09547-8 ()
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  • 1572-9885 ()
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  • The Gender Cliff in the Relative Contribution to the Household Income: insights from Modelling Marriage Markets in 27 European Countries (xsd:string)
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  • In: European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, 36, 2020, 4, 711-733 (xsd:string)
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  • urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-74550-7 ()
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