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Title: Wage Determination and Marital Status: Another Look
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1. Bartlett, Robin L.
Callahan, Charles
Wage Determination and Marital Status: Another Look
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 23,1 (January 1984): 90-96.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1984.tb00877.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Marital Status; Wage Determination

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Analysis of the effect of marital status upon the hourly wage rates of older white males shows that human capital variables explain a great deal of the wages of married men, and work status and location variables explain the wages of other white men. Significant differences were not found, however, among the three models estimated. Findings indicate the observed wage differential between married and unattached males seems to result from role specialization or perceived need, or both. Remarried men appear to be more motivated or are perceived as needier than married men. Almost all of the wage differential between married men and continuously single men results from occupational and industrial distribution differences. It remains to be determined whether single men earn less because they choose to enter lower paid occupations, or because they are denied access to certain occupations on the basis of their marital status.
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Bartlett, Robin L. and Charles Callahan. "Wage Determination and Marital Status: Another Look." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 23,1 (January 1984): 90-96.