Increasing resource inequality among families in modern societies: The mechanisms of growing educational homogamy, changes in the division of work in the family and the decline of the male breadwinner model

Journal of Comparative Family Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 603-616

  Blossfeld, Hans Peter ^a   Buchholz, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 77950357449     PISSN: 00472328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jcfs.40.4.603     Document Type: Article

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