The Effects of Gender Relative Performance on Female Marriage Rates and Labor Force
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Liu, Chia-Lun
Abstract
This paper investigates two female decision-making issues: delaying female marriage rates and labor force participation of married women in Taiwan.
First, from the concept of option in marriages, higher male wage inequality leads women to prolong their marriage search duration for a possible better spouse. To the empirical results, the dispersion of male wage indeed raises the female single rates, especially for less-educated women. One possible explanation is because these less-educated women are more likely to rely on husbands’ economic performance. On the other hand, for college-educated women, comparatively high human capital makes them less reliant on searching for a better husband.
In the second part of this paper, I investigate the possible distortion effect on the labor force of married women if the wife has a higher chance to earn more than her husband. The issue is that, if the chance that a woman earns more than her husband increases, she may choose to stay home or reduce her hours worked to be less threatening to her husband for maintaining a harmonious marital relationship.
Subjects
單身率
薪資不均
婚姻市場
勞動參與率
性別角色
SDGs
Type
thesis
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