Title:
Female Employment Change and Household Income Distributions

Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of women’’s employment on the household income distributions in EU countries and the US. As a first step we display the trends in women’’s earnings and employment patterns by the distribution of husbands’’ earnings . One key issue here is to address the underlying selection with regard to couple formation and dissolution. Thus, we also explore the distribution of union formation and dissolution across income quartiles over time. We then, run a number of simulations to isolate the effect of a change in the labour supply of women on the household income distribution while taking into account the mentioned non-random nature of the changes in the household structure.