We present an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. In the marital market, men and … (initiated by women) is an option, in an equilibrium with male marriage premium married men have a higher reservation wage than …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice … possible intellectual influences on Becker's theory of marriage, compares Becker's research on marriage with that of some … scholars interested in intra-marriage distribution, and documents that Becker's students at Chicago were more interested in …

frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by … male wage differentials. The equilibrium may also display the "marriage premium". predicted to be lower among attractive …

marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation …

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model …