Asymetric power within couples: the gendered effect of children and employment on entitlement to household income
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ABSTRACT :This paper investigates the gendered and non-gendered determinants of individual “entitlements” to household resources. We model households as sites of cooperative conflict (Sen, 1990), wherein entitlements represent the results of cooperation to increase total household resources and of conflict over individual access to those resources. We use individual answers to satisfaction with household income from the British Household Panel Survey (1996-2005) for couples, stripping out the effects of unobserved heterogeneity. Results suggest the co-existence of gendered and symmetric effects of employment and children on both aspects of entitlement, over and above partners’ relative wage rates.Download Info
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Article provided by ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles in its journal Brussels economic review.
Volume (Year): 51 (2008)
Issue (Month): 2/3 ()
Pages: 269-290
Note: Numéro spécial "Parentalité et emploi" décembre 2008, Editrice :Danièle Meulders
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Keywords: Gender differences; Entitlements; Household bargaining; Income satisfaction; Perceived contributions; Identities and fallback positions;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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