incentives: the role of the social norm of a male breadwinner. 58 established cohabiting heterosexual and married couples (116 …

production function. For every production function that induces positive sorting we can find a production function that induces … negative sorting but generates identical wages. This arises even when we allow for non-competitive mismatch, for example due to … search frictions. Even though we cannot identify the sign of the sorting, we can identify the strength, i.e., the magnitude …

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … predictions based on a structural model of labor supply. The main finding is that the impact of marital sorting on earnings … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … predictions based on a structural model of labor supply. The main finding is that the impact of marital sorting on earnings … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …