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International Journal of Business and Economics

International Journal of Business and Economics
Volume 7, No. 3

December, 2008
 
Wage Inequality and Propensity to Marry after 1980 in Taiwan
 
Yu-Chen Kuo
Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
 
Abstract
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.
 
Keywords:marriage, wage inequality, labor market.
 
JEL Classifications:J10, J12.
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