Bringing home the bacon: Marital allocation of income-earning responsibility, job shifts, and men's wages

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 110-122

  Gorman, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings; Family structure; Marital status; Wages; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033074797     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/353887     Document Type: Article

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