Class, Race, and the Spousal Income Gap: The Effects of Family Income, Educational Attainment, and Race-Ethnicity on the Husband-Wife Income Ratio in the United States, 1980, 1990, 2000

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-275

  Huato, Julio ^a   Woodbury Zeno, Kathryn ^b  

^a St Francis College   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender gap; income gap; spousal gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950757229     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764209338812     Document Type: Article

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