For love or for money? A study of the marriage wage premium in Colombia
Being married may raise worker productivity and increase the probability of remaining in a job and, as consequence, obtaining a wage premium -- Yet, this effect may be different for males and females -- In developing countries, such as Colombia, the premium may be larger than in developed countries...
- Autores:
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Gómez Duarte, Laura
Coavas Blanquicett, Sami Gabriel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Universidad EAFIT
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EAFIT
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/9161
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10784/9161
- Palabra clave:
- C31
G14
G15
SALARIOS - INVESTIGACIONES
SALARIOS
SALARIOS Y PRODUCTIVIDAD LABORAL
ESPOSOS
MERCADO LABORAL
Wage Gap, Marriage
Wage surveys
Wages
Wages and labor productivity
Husbands
Labor supply
- Rights
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- Copyright (c) 2016 Laura Gómez Duarte, Sami Gabriel Coavas Blanquicett
| Summary: | Being married may raise worker productivity and increase the probability of remaining in a job and, as consequence, obtaining a wage premium -- Yet, this effect may be different for males and females -- In developing countries, such as Colombia, the premium may be larger than in developed countries due to the differing social norms and labor market structures -- Using cross-sectional data from Colombian Household Surveys, this paper examines the marriage wage premium and its evolution in Colombia both at the aggregate level and by gender -- We find a marriage wage premium for both male and female populations; this wage premium is explained by the greater human capital endowment in married people and to employer favoritism due to the “social norms” which consider being married an appropriate behavior and reward it |
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