Marriage and Men’s Earnings: Specialization and Cross-Productivity Effects
| Autor: | Paul Sicilian, Claudia Smith Kelly, Sonia Dalmia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics Earnings 05 social sciences Test (assessment) 050902 family studies Spouse 0502 economics and business Specialization (functional) Selection (linguistics) Economics Demographic economics National Longitudinal Surveys 050207 economics 0509 other social sciences Productivity |
| Zdroj: | Eastern Economic Journal. 42:335-348 |
| ISSN: | 1939-4632 0094-5056 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/eej.2014.63 |
| Popis: | We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 to study the relationships between married men’s earnings and marriage and spouse characteristics. We test three theories posited in the literature to explain these relationships — selection, specialization, and cross-productivity. While previous research finds evidence in support of all three explanations, we argue that the empirical models used are underspecified resulting in biased tests of the theories. We estimate a more complete model, encompassing all three theories. We find evidence in support for the selection and specialization hypotheses, but little support for the cross-productivity hypothesis. |
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