Wage Inequality and Propensity to Marry after 1980 in Taiwan

Yu-Chen Kuo

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2008, vol. 7, issue 3, 231-248

Abstract: This paper utilizes data from Taiwan to examine whether male wage inequality explains the decline in the propensity to marry. Our empirical results find a small but insignificant effect of regional wage inequality under different measures and specifications of inequality.

Keywords: marriage; wage inequality; labor market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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