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The Male Marital Wage Differential: Race, Training, and Fixed Effects

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  • Rodgers III, William M.

    () (Rutgers University)

  • Stratton, Leslie S.

    () (Virginia Commonwealth University)

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Married white men have higher wages and faster wage growth than unmarried white men. Using the NLSY, we examine whether racial differences in intrahousehold specialization and formal training explain married men's faster wage growth, and individual-specific data on cognitive skills, family background, and self-esteem contribute to married men’s higher wages. African American households engage in less intrahousehold specialization and experience no differential wage growth – a finding consistent with an intrahousehold specialization argument. However, while married men have more training, cognitive ability, and self-esteem than unmarried men, controlling for these differences does not explain any component of the marital wage differential.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1745.

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Length: 47 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2005
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Publication status: published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48(3), 722-742
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  3. Cornaglia, Francesca & Feldman, Naomi E., 2011. "Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball," IZA Discussion Papers 5695, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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