Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males
JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Vol. 31, No. 3, Summer 1996
Posted: 24 Apr 1998
Abstract
Attempts to account for the positive, and often large, wage premium paid to married men based on their greater productivity have been inconclusive. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper provides new evidence that labor productivity differences between married and never-married men are unlikely to be the cause of the marriage premium.
JEL Classification: J31, J24, J12
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Loh, Eng Seng, Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males. JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Vol. 31, No. 3, Summer 1996, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3295
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