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Does Variance Matter? The Effect of Rising Male Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics David S. Loughran
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.
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Keywords: MARRIAGE ; WAGES ; LABOUR MARKET ; Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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