Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males

Eng Seng Loh

Journal of Human Resources, 1996, vol. 31, issue 3, 566-589

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1996
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