We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained sequential job search, and can choose to improve their...

Without assuming innate differences between genders, we show that the simultaneous interaction between frictional labor and marriage markets can result in a "gendered" equilibrium which is consistent with observed empirical regularities: men earn more than women, and their attachment to the...