Journal Article

Household labour supply and the marriage market in the UK, 1991-2008

By Marion Goussé, Nicolas Jacquemet and Jean-Marc Robin

Publication details

Publication date
Published in
Labour Economics
Volume
46
Pages
pp. 131–149
Publisher
Elsevier Science
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.02.005
ISSN
9275371
'Labour Economics' Featured Article

Summary

We document changes in labour supply, wage and education by gender and marital status using the British Household Panel Survey, 1991-2008, and seek to disentangle the main channels behind these changes. To this end, we use a version of Goussé et al. (2016)'s search-matching model of the marriage market with labour supply, which does not use information on home production time inputs. We derive conditions under which the model is identified. We estimate different parameters for each year. This allows us to quantify how much of the changes in labour supply, wage and education by gender and marital status depends on changes in the preferences for leisure of men and women and how much depends on changes in homophily.

Notes

‘Labour Economics’ Featured Article of Jean-Marc Robin’s Adam Smith Lecture, at The Twentieth SOLE Meetings/ Fourth SOLE/EALE World Conference, June 26-28 2015, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

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