Retirement and Intra-Household Labour Division of Italian Couples: A New Simultaneous Equation Approach

Caltabiano, Marcantonio; Campolo, Maria Gabriella; Pino, Antonino Di

doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1076-5

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“…Consistent with these predictions, our analysis showed that the relative gender gap in household labor, measured by the husband's share of a couple's total hours of routine housework, did not differ between these stages. This result contrasts with the pattern reported for male breadwinner couples, which indicated a converging gender gap in household labor after retirement (Leopold & Skopek, 2015;Caltabiano et al, 2015). For the absolute gender gap measured in terms of men's and women's hours of housework, we even found an increase compared to the pre-retirement stage.…”

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“…Husbands increase their hours spent on domestic tasks and take over some of the work previously performed by their wives (Leopold & Skopek, 2015;Caltabiano, Campolo, & di Pino, 2015). This shift to more equitable arrangements suggests that retirement reduces gender inequality in the home, and supports the idea that gender display becomes less salient in later life (Gutmann, 1975).…”

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“…Our analysis went beyond previous research, which had focused on traditional male breadwinner couples and considered only the husband's retirement (Leopold & Skopek, 2015;Caltabiano et al, 2015). In contrast to these studies, our findings pertain to contemporary and future cohorts of couples who approach retirement as dual full-time earners.…”

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“…Looking at retirement, studies have reported the reverse pattern. As male breadwinners retired from the workforce, the gender gap in housework narrowed markedly (Leopold & Skopek, 2015;Caltabiano et al, 2015). Similar to the effects of parenthood, these changes in housework were permanent.…”

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Retirement and Changes in Housework: A Panel Study of Dual Earner Couples

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2016

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