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100 _aPilossoph, Laura and Wee, Shu Lin
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245 _aHousehold Search and the Marital Wage Premium
260 _aAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
300 _a13(4), Oct, 2021: p.55-109
520 _aWe develop a model where selection into marriage and household search generate a marital wage premium. Beyond selection, married individuals earn higher wages for two reasons. First, income pooling within a joint household raises risk-averse individuals' reservation wages. Second, married individuals climb the job ladder faster, as they internalize that higher wages increase their partner's selectivity over offers. Specialization according to comparative advantage in search generates a premium that increases in spousal education, as in the data. Quantitatively, household search explains 10–33 percent and 20–58 percent of the premium for males and females, respectively, and accounts for its increase with spousal education. – Reproduced
773 _aAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
906 _aWAGES
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