Household Specialization and the Male Marriage Wage Premium
Household Specialization and the Male Marriage Wage Premium
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家庭专业化与男性婚姻工资溢价
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2000
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通讯作者：
Leslie S. Stratton
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J. Hersch;Leslie S. Stratton
实证研究一致表明，已婚男性的平均工资远高于其他类似的未婚男性。解释这种模式的一个普遍引用的假设是，婚姻允许配偶一方专门从事市场生产，另一方专门从事家庭生产，使前者（通常是丈夫）能够获得更多针对市场的人力资本，并最终赚取更高的工资。作者使用全国家庭调查的面板数据检验了这一假设。数据显示，已婚男性花在家庭生产上的时间与单身男性几乎相同，尽管家务类型不同。固定效应工资方程的估计表明，男性婚姻工资溢价并未受到家庭生产活动控制的显着影响。作者得出的结论是，家庭专业化似乎并不是该样本中婚姻溢价的原因。
Empirical research has consistently shown that married men have substantially higher wages, on average, than otherwise similar unmarried men. One commonly cited hypothesis to explain this pattern is that marriage allows one spouse to specialize in market production and the other to specialize in home production, enabling the former—usually the husband—to acquire more market-specific human capital and, ultimately, earn higher wages. The authors test this hypothesis using panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households. The data reveal that married men spent virtually the same amount of time on home production as did single men, albeit on different types of housework. Estimates from a fixed effects wage equation indicate that the male marriage wage premium is not substantially affected by controls for home production activities. Household specialization, the authors conclude, does not appear to have been responsible for the marriage premium in this sample.