Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males

JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Vol. 31, No. 3, Summer 1996

Posted: 24 Apr 1998

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Eng Seng Loh

Kent State University; Caterpillar, Inc.

Abstract

Attempts to account for the positive, and often large, wage premium paid to married men based on their greater productivity have been inconclusive. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper provides new evidence that labor productivity differences between married and never-married men are unlikely to be the cause of the marriage premium.

JEL Classification: J31, J24, J12

Suggested Citation

Loh, Eng Seng, Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males. JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES, Vol. 31, No. 3, Summer 1996, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3295

Eng Seng Loh (Contact Author)

Kent State University ( email )

Department of Economics
Kent, OH 44242
United States

Caterpillar, Inc. ( email )

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