Marriage Premium with Productivity Heterogeneity

Roberto Bonilla, Francis Kiraly and John Wildman

No 7791, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Using an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets, we establish the existence of male marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find supporting evidence using Chinese data.

Keywords: constrained sequential search; marriage premium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 J12 J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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