{"title":"The Role of Married Women's Labor Supply on Family\nEarnings Distribution in Japan","authors":"Yukiko Abe, A. Oishi","doi":"10.25071/1874-6322.7233","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we empirically examine the impact of wives' participation\nin the labor market on family earnings inequality, by paying\nattention to the dynamic aspect of labor supply by wives. We find\nthat wives' earnings have a moderate equalizing effect on family earnings\ninequality. Unlike in the United States, cohort effects in earnings\ninequality are relatively small in Japan. The correlation between husbands'\nand wives' earnings is small for almost every cohort in our\ncross-sectional data. The analysis of panel data suggests that married\nwomen's employment has a strong persistence, which has a significant\nimpact on the level of family earnings.","PeriodicalId":142300,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Income Distribution®","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Income Distribution®","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1874-6322.7233","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this article, we empirically examine the impact of wives' participation
in the labor market on family earnings inequality, by paying
attention to the dynamic aspect of labor supply by wives. We find
that wives' earnings have a moderate equalizing effect on family earnings
inequality. Unlike in the United States, cohort effects in earnings
inequality are relatively small in Japan. The correlation between husbands'
and wives' earnings is small for almost every cohort in our
cross-sectional data. The analysis of panel data suggests that married
women's employment has a strong persistence, which has a significant
impact on the level of family earnings.
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