A change in the earnings penalty for British men with working wives: Evidence from the 1980's and 1990's

The Male Marital Earnings Premium in the Context of Bride Wealth Payments: Evidence from South Africa

“…In this study, we investigate evidence of a marital earnings premium among black men in a country where bride wealth traditionally is practiced, and where we may Jacobsen and Rayack (1996) and Loh (1996) even find some evidence that working wives may have a positive effect on men's earnings, implying that either complementarities in household time allocation or positive assortative mating may be at play. Similar evidence has been found for the United Kingdom-while Blackaby, Carlin, and Murphy (1998) found a significant negative relationship between wife's working hours and men's wages for some occupations in the early 1980s, a decade later they found that this penalty had been replaced by a premium, albeit small, for almost all occupations (Blackaby, Carlin, and Murphy 2007). therefore expect selection to be a more important parr of the explanation for the marriage premium.…”

Marriage and Wages: A Test of the Specialization Hypothesis

“…Although this may seem counterintuitive, there is other evidence from both the United States and the United Kingdom supporting this relationship which is consistent with positive assortative mating (see e.g. Blackaby et al . 2005; Juhn and Murphy 1997).…”

“…Although this may seem counterintuitive, there is other evidence from both the United States and the United Kingdom supporting this relationship which is consistent with positive assortative mating (see e.g. Blackaby et al 2005;Juhn and Murphy 1997). We summarize the relationship found in the raw data between the man's position in the wage distribution and his partner's working hours in Table A5 in the Appendix.…”

Occupational Attainment and Earnings Among Immigrant Groups: Evidence from New Zealand

“…Blackaby, Leslie, Murphy and O'Leary (1998) demonstrated an earnings disadvantage of non-European immigrants in the U.K. that remains unexplained after controlling for an extended number of human capital factors, a result supported by Blackaby, Carlin, and Murphy (2007), and by Chiswick (1978) in the U.S. Elliott and Lindley (2008), in a U.S. study, also found immigrant ethnic minorities were disadvantaged in gaining employment in higher-paying occupations.…”