Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/224480 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Social Science Research [ISSN:] 1096-0317 [Volume:] 85 [Article No.:] 102348 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] --
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
This paper explores earnings inequalities within dual-earner couples in East and West Germany drawing on household-level panel data from 1992 to 2016. It has three aims: (1) to analyze how the partner pay gap (the pay gap between partners within one household) has developed over time, given institutional change, and whether the extent of inequality and temporal development vary between East and West Germany; (2) to explore variation in the partner pay gap by male partners' absolute earnings; and (3) to investigate the micro-level determinants of earnings inequalities within couples and determine whether their relevance varies between East and West Germany as well as by male partners’ absolute earnings. We find women earn substantially less than their partners, and our regression results find no indication of a declining partner pay gap. Besides substantial variation between East and West Germany, our results also reveal important group-specific variation in the extent of the partner pay gap as well as in its determinants.
Subjects: 
partner pay gap
gender inequality
employment
institutional change
time trends
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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