Lowering Standards to Wed? Spouse Quality, Marriage, and Labor Market Responses to the Gender Wage Gap
This paper examines the effect of the female-to-male wage ratio, “relative wage,” on women's spouse quality, marriage, and labor supply over three decades. Exploiting task-based demand shifts as a shock to relative pay, I find that a higher relative wage (i) increases the quality of women'...
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| Main Author: | Shenhav, Na'ama |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Place of publication: |
06.03.2020 |
| published in: | The review of economics and statistics pp. 1 - 45 |
| Data of publication: | 2020-03-06 |
| ISSN: |
0034-6535 1530-9142 |
| EISSN: |
1530-9142 |
| Discipline: | Economics Statistics |
| Online Access: | Fulltext |
| Database: | CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS |