Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zinovyeva, Natalia; Tverdostup, Maryna
• 署名单位: University of Warwick; Aalto University; University of Innsbruck; University of Tartu
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20180542
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 258-284
• 关键词: taxation

摘要

Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) document that in the United States there is a discontinuity to the right of 0.5 in the distribution of households according to the female share of total earnings, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm. We provide an alternative explanation for this discontinuity. Using linked employer-employee data from Finland, we show that the discontinuity emerges as a result of equalization and convergence of earnings in coworking couples, and it is associated with an increase in the relative earnings of women, rather than a decrease as predicted by the norm. (JEL D12, J12, J16, J22, J31, Z13)