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| Volume 7, No. 3,
December
2008 |
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Wage Inequality and Propensity
to Marry after 1980 in Taiwan |
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| Yu-Chen Kuo |
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Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taiwan |
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| Abstract |
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This paper
utilizes data from Taiwan to examine whether male wage inequality
explains the decline in the propensity to marry. Our empirical
results find a small but insignificant effect of regional wage
inequality under different measures and specifications of
inequality. |
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| Key
words:
marriage; wage inequality; labor market |
| JEL
classification:
J10; J12 |
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