Volume 31, Number 3 (Summer) 1996
Seng Loh, Eng. 1996. "Productivity Differences and the Marriage Wage Premium for White Males." Journal of Human Resources 31(3):566-589.
Attempts to account for the positive, and often large, wage premium paid to married men based on their greater productivity have been inconclusive. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper provides new evidence that labor productivity differences between married and never-married men are unlikely to be the cause of the marriage premium.
Eng Seng Loh is an assistant professor of economics at Kent State University. He thanks Sanders Korenman, David Neumark, and three anonymous referees for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. He takes responsibility for all errors. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in November 1996 through October 1999 from the author, Department of Economics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242.
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