We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of …

substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …