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Does Variance Matter? The Effect of Rising Male Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage

D.S. Loughran

Working Papers from RAND - Labor and Population Program

Abstract: Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States. This paper uses a model of female marital search to demonstrate why these two trends could be related. Elementary job search theory, under risk-neutrality, predicts search duration will increase given a mean preserving spread in the distribution of wage offers, because the expected value of continued job search increases.

Keywords: MARRIAGE; WAGES; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 J12 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2000
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