Marital earnings premiums in Trinidad & Tobago:ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Reed Neil Olsen and Addington Coppin ()
Additional contact information
Addington Coppin: Missouri State University, USA

Journal of Developing Areas, 2010, vol. 44, issue 1, 201-227

Abstract: This article employs a unique data set from 1993 with 7,063 working men and women from Trinidad and Tobago to examine the impact of ethnicity and socioeconomic status upon marital earnings premiums. It finds a significant marriage premium for both males and females. Ethnicity is found to play a crucial role in marital premiums with more advantaged ethnic groups having generally higher premiums. This result is strengthened when controlling for socioeconomic status, which is found to increase the size of marital premiums for all workers, regardless of gender or ethnicity. Earnings regressions with endogenous marital status confirm these results and further highlight the importance of socioeconomic status.

Keywords: marital premium; socioeconomic status; developing economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 J7 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_developing_areas/v044/44.1.olsen.html

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jda:journl:vol.44:year:2011:issue1:pp:201-227

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Developing Areas from Tennessee State University, College of Business Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Abu N.M. Wahid ().