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Peer reviewedDevereux, Paul J. – Journal of Human Resources, 2004
Changes in the wages of husbands and wives are correlated and hence earning inequality is still growing. Family labor supply behavior determines how the change in an individual wage rate translates into family earnings changes. Results suggest that earnings of the wives of low income men have fallen if woman's labor supply did not respond to…
Descriptors: Labor Supply, Spouses, Wages, Low Income
Peer reviewedFrijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2004
The German socio economic panel found negative effects on life satisfactions from losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in hospital, while the positive effects were from income and marriage. Life satisfaction for East German increased after the reunification due to increase in household incomes, improvement in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Spouses, Death
