caa a22 4500 445864079 CHVBK 20180317145452.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11150-010-9095-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11150-010-9095-0 Soobedar Zeenat Department of Economics, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK aut A semiparametric analysis of the rising breadwinner role of women in the UK [Elektronische Daten] [Zeenat Soobedar] This paper describes the changes in the relative position of women in the family—as measured by their share of household labour income—in the UK between 1994 and 2004. Using a methodology that borrows from DiNardo et al. (Econometrica 64:1001-44, 1996), it assesses the contribution of changes in men's and women's characteristics, the market returns to these characteristics and the role of assortative mating. The main factor which accounts for the increase in the relative female earnings share is the rising female labour force participation across the whole distribution of the female breadwinner index. Changes in assortative mating have a modest positive impact on the index at the mean, 25th and 75th percentiles of the distribution. This is explained by increasing positive assortative mating between 1994 and 2004. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Female earnings share nationallicence Female labour force participation nationallicence Assortative mating nationallicence Semiparametric approach nationallicence Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/3(2011-09-01), 415-428 1569-5239 9:3<415 2011 9 11150 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-010-9095-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-010-9095-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Soobedar Zeenat Department of Economics, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/3(2011-09-01), 415-428 1569-5239 9:3<415 2011 9 11150 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer