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What a Difference a Wife Makes: The Effect of Women's Hours of Work on Husbands' Hourly Earnings

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  • Blackaby, D H
  • Carlin, P S
  • Murphy, P D

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This paper investigates the relationship between a wife's work-hours decision and her husband's hourly earnings. It is found that, among men in Managerial and Other Manual occupations, having a working wife significantly reduces the husband's hourly wage rate. The findings are robust to various estimation techniques and imply for these cases that productivity or discrimination effects associated with a wife working 40 hours per week lead to a reduction in the husband's hourly earnings of around 15 per cent. Copyright 1998 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research

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  • Blackaby, D H & Carlin, P S & Murphy, P D, 1998. "What a Difference a Wife Makes: The Effect of Women's Hours of Work on Husbands' Hourly Earnings," Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(1), pages 1-18, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:buecrs:v:50:y:1998:i:1:p:1-18
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    1. Blackaby, D.H. & Carlin, Paul S. & Murphy, P.D., 2007. "A change in the earnings penalty for British men with working wives: Evidence from the 1980's and 1990's," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(1), pages 119-134, January.

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