Intra-Couple Income Distribution and Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Effect of Gender Norms

Hajdu, Gábor; Hajdu, Tamás

doi:10.1093/esr/jcy006

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“…Also, Lersch (2017) recently showed that younger generations of German women and men are more satisfied with their personal wealth than with the wealth of their partners. On the contrary, Hajdu and Hajdu (2018) revealed in the Hungarian context that neither men nor women view the higher earning potential of women positively. Instead, the negative association between a woman’s relative income and financial well-being results from traditional gender norms and breadwinning culture.…”

Section: Financial Well-being and Intra-household Sharingmentioning

confidence: 91%

Manage Your Money, Be Satisfied? Money Management Practices and Financial Satisfaction of Couples Through the Lens of Gender

Kulić

Minello

Zella³

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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There is a difference between who brings in income, who spends and manages money, and who finally benefits. All these aspects are important in determining how satisfied spouses are with their individual financial situation. Relying on Swiss Household Panel (SHP) data from 2004 to 2013 (N = 1,810 couples), this assumption is tested by analyzing how women’s relative income and the management of economic resources within couples affect women’s and men’s financial satisfaction in the household. Results show that a change in the composition of total income in favor of women directly increases their financial satisfaction and net of household income, while men’s financial satisfaction increases up to the point at which women earn more than one third of the total income. Money management regimes serve as an important additional tool in creating and compensating for (dis) advantage between partners. The results are discussed in the context of traditional gender norms in the Swiss Society.

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Section: Financial Well-being and Intra-household Sharingmentioning

confidence: 91%

Manage Your Money, Be Satisfied? Money Management Practices and Financial Satisfaction of Couples Through the Lens of Gender

Kulić

Minello

Zella³

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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“…Some of these observed relationships are moderated by respondents' gender role ideologies suggesting that women's economic dominance in the household is only problematic for couples with traditional views. In Hungary, the woman's share of a couple's income is negatively associated with the life satisfaction of both partners; except for respondents with low levels of traditional gender norms (Hajdu and Hajdu, 2018). Adherence to gender norms also affects the relationship between contributions to household tasks and relationship satisfaction (Blom et al, 2017), as well as marital well-being and wives' income shares (Furdyna et al, 2008).…”

Section: Relative Earnings and Subjective Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK

Gash

Plagnol

2020

Work, Employment and Society

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Despite women’s recent gains in education and employment, husbands still tend to out-earn their wives. This article examines the relationship between the partner pay gap (i.e. the difference in earned income between married, co-resident partners) and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous studies, we investigate the effects of recent changes in relative earnings within couples as well as labour market transitions. Using several waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we reveal that men exhibit an increase in life satisfaction in response to a recent increase in their proportional earnings relative to their wives’ earnings. For women, changes in proportional earnings had no effect on life satisfaction. We also find secondary-earning husbands report lower average life satisfaction than majority-earning and equal-earning men, while such differences were not found for women. The analysis offers compelling evidence of the ongoing role of gendered norms in the sustenance of the partner pay gap.

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“…-Focusing on the relative income and satisfaction of spouses, there is negative association between the woman's share of the couple's total earnings and life satisfaction; the latter not only for men, but for women as well. Moreover, this association is stronger if the couple prefers traditional gender roles (Hajdu-Hajdu 2018). -The impact of significant labor market events (such as promotion or termination) on the time spent on domestic work, and how this association varies according to couples' levels of education is an especially lucid example of "doing gender": men in less-educated households tend to reduce their time on housework more, and their women increase their housework time more, than is the case in other households in which men are promoted.…”

Section: Alternative Concepts Of Domestic Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intra–and inter–household network capital

Sík¹

2020

Szociológiai szemle

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The aim of this paper is to outline the theoretical model of an empirical piece of research we plan to carry out in the next two years. Our model emphasizes the intertwined nature of intra-household processes such as production, consumption, and reproduction. As for intra-household processes, our approach treats household members not as isolated actors but as interrelated within the household. The focus of our analysis is network capital, which (1) on the individual level expresses the activity of a household member in interhousehold networks (e.g. contacting relatives), (2) on the intra-household relational level assesses the position of household members as regards each other (relations among network-poor and network-rich household members), and (3) on the household level refers to the aggregated value and structure of the households’ network capital (e.g. network-poor and network-rich households). The structure of the paper is as follows: after introducing our household concept in general, we outline the alternative concepts of household as a firm and the “container” of reproductive processes. In the next chapters we outline the concept of network capital, and operationalize this idea as an intertwined model of intra- and inter-household processes. Next, we develop an extended household model and incorporate our network capital approach into this. Finally, we outline the next steps we intend to take towards empirically verifying our model by selecting a “best of” collection of previous empirical analyses about inter- and intra-household processes.

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Intra-Couple Income Distribution and Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Effect of Gender Norms

Cited by 16 publications

References 59 publications

Manage Your Money, Be Satisfied? Money Management Practices and Financial Satisfaction of Couples Through the Lens of Gender

Manage Your Money, Be Satisfied? Money Management Practices and Financial Satisfaction of Couples Through the Lens of Gender

The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK

Intra–and inter–household network capital

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