Labor Market Inequality and Marital Segregation in East Asia

Shoichi Sasaki ()
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Shoichi Sasaki: Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University

No 1822, Discussion Papers from Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University

Abstract: This study examines the effects of inequalities in male educational wages and gender-such as the gender wage gap and barriers for labor force participation of female workers-on the labor market. It considers the effects of social infrastructure or public goods on marital segregation in Japan, South Korea, Republic of China, and Taiwan. The theoretical hypothesis that Fernández et al. (2005) build is empirically analyzed using individual data from East Asian Social Survey. The estimation results suggest that wage and gender inequalities in the labor market, such as skill wage premiums for men and full-time rates for married women, significantly affect marital segregation. These results show that policies to decrease inequality in the parental generation can decrease future inequality.

Keywords: Wage premium; skilled workers; gender gap; marital segregation; assortative mating; hypogamy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J12 J16 J24 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2018-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab and nep-sea
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