WITHIN-COUPLE FINANCIAL SATISFACTION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A TEST OF INCOME POOLING HYPOTHESIS

• Authors: Martina Myslíková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This paper uses the national EU-SILC 2013 data to analyse the impact of the distribution of personal income between partners on reported financial well-being of couples in the Czech Republic. It focuses on partners in two life stages: couples raising children and couples with empty nests. On average, women contribute substantially less to the household budget than men and their financial satisfaction is slightly lower. Financial satisfaction of partners with children is not influenced by who brings the income. In a childless household, the higher woman’s contribution, the lower is man’s satisfaction with the financial situation relatively to hers.

Keywords

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FINANCIAL SATISFACTION; HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS; INCOME; PERSONAL INCOME; CZECH REPUBLIC

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 301 – 316

Contributors

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Martina Myslíková

• Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic