A latent class analysis towards stability and changes in breadwinning patterns among coupled households

Fulvia Pennoni and Nakai Miki ()
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Nakai Miki: College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, 56-1 Tojiin Kitamachi, Kyoto603-8577Japan

Dependence Modeling, 2019, vol. 7, issue 1, 234-246

Abstract: A latent class model is proposed to examine couples’ breadwinning typologies and explain the wage differentials according to the socio-demographic characteristics of the society with data collected through surveys. We derive an ordinal variable indicating the couple’s income provision-role type and suppose the existence of an underlying discrete latent variable to model the effect of covariates. We use a two-step maximum likelihood inference conducted to account for concomitant variables, informative sampling scheme and missing responses. The weighted log-likelihood is maximised through the Expectation-Maximization algorithm and information criteria are used to develop the model selection. Predictions are made on the basis of the maximum posterior probabilities. Disposing of data collected in Japan over thirty years we compare couples’ breadwinning patterns across time. We provide some evidence of the gender wage-gap and we show that it can be attributed to the fact that, especially in Japan, duties and responsibilities for the child care are supported exclusively by women.

Keywords: Akaike information criterion; Expectation-Maximization algorithm; gender inequality; household income composition; weighted log-likelihood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1515/demo-2019-0012

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