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Will You Marry Me? A Perspective on the Gender Gap

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Ronel Elul (Department of Economics, Brown University.)
Jose Silva-Reus (Departamento de Fundamentos del Analisis Economico, Universidad de Alicante, Spain.)
Oscar Volij (Department of Economics, Brown University, and Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.)

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This paper develops a general equilibrium model of the gender wage gap. The difference in earnings is a consequence of a demographic regularity --- that men tend to marry younger women --- which limits women's labor mobility. However, couples are always free not to marry, and do so only if it is in each's self-interest. In our model, marriage is beneficial because the joint consumption is a household public good. The intrafamily allocation of resources is determined via noncooperative bargaining; this leads to interesting interactions between the game played by husband and wife on the one hand, and the competitive environment in which they are immersed on the other. One example of this is the gender gap.

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Paper provided by Oscar Volij in its series Economic theory and game theory with number 004.

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Publication status: Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 49(4), 549-572, 2002.
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Keywords: Gender gap; bargaining; household models; overlapping generations.;

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J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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  1. Miriam Beblo & Julio Robledo, 2008. "The wage gap and the leisure gap for double-earner couples," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 281-304, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Bowles, Hannah Riley & McGinn, Kathleen L., 2007. "Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations," Working Paper Series rwp07-062, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. [Downloadable!]
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