Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity.

Autor/inn/en	Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berücksichtigung des Ehepartners bei der Messung der Chancenungleichheit.
Quelle	Berlin (2015), 31 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 797
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Chancengleichheit; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sozialisation; Familie; Partnerschaft; Chancengleichheit; Einkommen; Familie; Partnerschaft; Sozialisation; Berufserfolg; Bildungsniveau; Ungleichheit; Ungleichheit; Einkommen; Berufserfolg; Geschlechtsspezifik; Ehepartner
Abstract	Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances and choices of spouses in a couple should be treated. By omitting information relevant to the spouse in IOp estimations, the implicit assumption was full responsibility for the partner's income, effort and circumstance variables. In this paper, we discuss whether or not the partner's characteristics should be treated as responsibility factors. Using German micro data, we analyze empirically, how IOp estimates are affected when a partner's circumstance or effort variables are included as own circumstances in the analysis. Our analysis indicates that including spouse's variables can increase IOp measures by more than 20 (35) percent for gross (net) earnings. The less the responsibility assumed for the partner's variables, the higher the IOp estimate. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2016/2