| he purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wife's employment on family expenditure. Three effects of wife's employment were considered separately: gross effects, work-related effects, and net income effects. The sample consisted of 796 families from the 1987 Consumer Expenditure Survey. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the association between wife's employment and 18 expenditure categories.;The results indicate that total difference in amount of family expenditure between employed-wife families and non-employed-wife families (gross effects) was significant for the expenditures for food away from home, alcoholic beverages, shelter, domestic services, furnishings and equipment, apparel and related services, private transportation, personal care, and pensions and Social Security.;For work-related effects, positive effects were found on expenditures for domestic services, private transportation, personal care, and pensions and Social Security, whereas negative effects were found on expenditures for food at home, utilities, public transportation, health care, and reading materials.;The net income effects of wife's employment on expenditure were positive on food away from home, shelter, utilities, furnishings and equipment, apparel and related services, private transportation, public transportation, personal care, and pensions and Social Security.;Gross increase in total family expenditure averaged... |
