. Theoretically, the high productivity of a spouse in a marriage could affect the other spouse’s earnings in two ways: negatively … residuals from estimates of pre-marriage earnings equations. Results indicate that there are negative effects of the spouse …This paper studies how the spouse’s productivity in the labor market affects one’s individual earnings when married …

females who marry and stay married over the course of the study interval. The earnings of both groups are modeled through … regression analysis in the year prior to their marriages along with the earnings of each husband. The residuals from the … regressions represent unobservables in the process of earnings generation. From the regressions we obtain spouse-to-be pairs of …

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and have sufficient time to support their …

We use the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) to explore the effects of marriage and cohabitation on gay, lesbian …, bisexual and heterosexual individuals' hours worked and full-time earnings. The CCHS is one of the largest national-level data … earnings advantage of partnered gay and bisexual men relative to the unattached is insignificant. The hours worked of partnered …

this gap over time. Our results suggest that although the earnings differential may be due to the marriage premium, anti …. Homosexual women, on the other hand, experience higher earnings than their heterosexual female counterparts, and the law shrinks … to marry could reduce the earnings inequality without creating potentially significant labor market distortions. …

We use the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) to explore the effects of marriage and cohabitation on gay, lesbian …, bisexual and heterosexual individuals’ hours worked and full-time earnings. The CCHS is one of the largest national-level data … earnings advantage of partnered gay and bisexual men relative to the unattached is insignificant. The hours worked of partnered …

, were not penalized for childbearing. While cigar workers experienced some significant earnings growth, this was confined to … the first few years in the industry. Men and women had similar earnings growth at first, but male earnings growth … continued longer than female earnings growth, creating a gender earnings gap. …

-specific earnings in a sample containing the entire Swedish population born 1960–1974; we follow this sample from 1990 to 2009. Our … education on postmarital earnings, relating it to the income development before union formation. We find that being partnered … with someone with more education (hypergamy) is associated with higher earnings, while partnering someone with less …