@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8729,
            	author={Hryshko, Dmytro and Juhn, Chinhui and McCue, Kristin},
            	title={Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?},
            	year={2014},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={8729},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8729},
	abstract={We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey of Income and Program Participation panels (SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Relative to male earnings inequality, the inequality of couples' earnings is both lower in levels and rises by a smaller amount. We also find that couples' earnings instability is lower in levels compared to male earnings instability and actually declines in the SIPP-SSA data. While wives' earnings played an important role in dampening the rise in inequality and year-to-year variation in resources at the family level, we find that marital sorting and coordination of labor supply decisions at the family level played a minor role. Comparing actual couples to randomly paired simulated couples, we find very similar trends in earnings inequality and instability.},
	keywords={matching;instability;inequality},
            }