Goldschmidt, Deborah; Klosterhuber, Wolfgang; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 50 (2017) 1, pp. 29-43
We develop a new method for identifying married couples in administrative data. Using address and name data from the …% of these pairs are indeed married couples and provide careful consistency checks. Using information from the German … Microcensus, we show that our method identifies about 17% of all married couples in Germany and about 35% of couples where both …