Men’s Marriage Premium in Taiwan - Evidence from Quantile Regression

• Main Authors: Shiou-Ling Suen, 孫秀玲
• Other Authors: Chien-Liang Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/g6k77p

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 經濟學系 === 95 === The male marriage premium is that married men earn higher wages than that of single ones. According to the literature, marriage premium can be derived from three sources: productivity hypothesis, selection hypothesis and employer discrimination hypothesis. Aside from the ordinary least square evidence in the existing studies, this thesis employs quantile regression model to tests selection hypothesis and productivity hypothesis in consequence by considering selection of marriage, wife’s labor force participation and labor market hours in the models, focusing on the possible heterogeneity of male marriage premium over the conditional distribution of wage. Empirical results show that marriage premium is higher for higher wage with significant heterogeneity across the wage distribution. Marriage premium seems to increase along with economic development. Furthermore, it is suggested that marriage premium can be decomposed into two parts: premium effect and penalty effect. The former comes from the fact that working wife helps her husband to accumulate human capital while the latter, working hours of wife is harmful to gender division in the household.