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European Sociological Review 17:295-316 (2001)
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Partner Choice and Women's Paid Work in Sweden. The Role of Earnings

Ursula Henz and Marianne Sundström

Institute of Gerontology, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 8WA, United Kingdom. ursula.henz{at}kcl.ac.uk
Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden. marianne.sundstrom{at}sofi.su.se

Recent observations of higher rates of labour-market activity among women with a high-earning spouse and widened household inequality have spurred research interest in earnings homogamy and in the effects of own and spouse's earning on female labour supply. This article studies trends in earnings homogamy among married and cohabiting parents and in the effects of own and spouse's earnings on mothers' time in employment and non-employment in Sweden. We analyse, first, correlations between spouses' earnings and, secondly, effects of time-varying own and spouse's earnings on mothers' transitions between part-time and full-time work, on their exits from and re-entries into employment, and on their exits from parental leave over the years 1968–92. We use individual life histories from the 1992 Swedish Family Survey combined with longitudinal information on earnings from the national taxation register. A unique aspect of this data-set is that it has accurate longitudinal earnings information for both married and cohabiting spouses, including former spouses. We find that mothers' own earning have a larger and more significant impact on their labour-market transitions than spouse's earnings and that the impact of the latter has actually declined over time.


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