Blackaby, D H; Carlin, P S; Murphy, P D - In: Bulletin of Economic Research 50 (1998) 1, pp. 1-18
This paper investigates the relationship between a wife's work-hours decision and her husband's hourly earnings. It is found that, among men in Managerial and Other Manual occupations, having a working wife significantly reduces the husband's hourly wage rate. The findings are robust to various...