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Bringing Home the Bacon: The Relationships among Breadwinner Role, Performance, and Pay

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  • Colleen Flaherty Manchester
  • Lisa M. Leslie
  • Patricia C. Dahm

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We evaluate the relationships among breadwinner role, performance, and pay. Differences in pay are present despite limited differences in performance. We find a pay premium for primary‐breadwinner employees across gender, yet a pay penalty for secondary‐breadwinners employees only for women, suggesting an asymmetric relationship among breadwinner role, gender, and pay.

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  • Colleen Flaherty Manchester & Lisa M. Leslie & Patricia C. Dahm, 2019. "Bringing Home the Bacon: The Relationships among Breadwinner Role, Performance, and Pay," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(1), pages 46-85, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:indres:v:58:y:2019:i:1:p:46-85
    DOI: 10.1111/irel.12225
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