The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK
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couples’ subjective well-being; equal-earning; household specialisation; income comparisons; life satisfaction; partner pay gap; relative earnings;All these keywords.
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