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For love or for money? A study of the marriage wage premium in Colombia

Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics

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Title For love or for money? A study of the marriage wage premium in Colombia
 
Creator Gómez Duarte, Laura
Coavas Blanquicett, Sami Gabriel
 
Subject Married; non-married; Wage Gap, Marriage; Wage Premium; Colombia
 
Description Being married may raise worker productivity and increase the probability of remaining in a job and, as consequence, obtaining a wage premium. Yet, this effect may be different for males and females. In developing countries, such as Colombia, the premium may be larger than in developed countries due to the differing social norms and labor market structures. Using cross-sectional data from Colombian Household Surveys, this paper examines the marriage wage premium and its evolution in Colombia both at the aggregate level and by gender. We find a marriage wage premium for both male and female populations; this wage premium is explained by the greater human capital endowment in married people and to employer favoritism due to the “social norms” which consider being married an appropriate behavior and reward it.
 
Publisher Universidad EAFIT
 
Date 2016-06-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
text/html
 
Identifier http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3567
10.17230/ecos.2016.42.4
 
Source Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 20 No 42 (2016); 70-89
Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics; Vol 20 No 42 (2016); 70-89
2462-8107
1657-4206
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3567/2864
http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/article/view/3567/3094
 
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