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Title: Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males
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Loh, Eng Seng |
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Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males Journal of Human Resources 31,3 (Summer 1996): 566-589. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/146266 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Economics, Demographic; Human Capital; Labor Economics; Occupational Choice; Schooling; Training, Occupational; Training, On-the-Job; Wage Differentials; Wage Levels 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. |
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Loh, Eng Seng. "Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males." Journal of Human Resources 31,3 (Summer 1996): 566-589.
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