Does Marriage Affects Men\'s Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Indonesia

• Main Authors: Dina Agnesia Sihombing, 葛絲
• Other Authors: Chang, Ching-Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7cg7bv

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 應用經濟研究所 === 107 === This paper investigate how marriage affects the wages and hours worked. By using data from Labor Force Survey Indonesia 2015, we are able to investigate the impact of marriage for Indonesia men. It finds that there are wage advantages associated with marriage. Married men earn 1,175,143 Rupiah per month, while not married men only earn 461,168 Rupiah per month. Married men work 38 hours per week, while not married men work only 19 hours per week. This research uses two models regression analysis. The first model is Ordinary Least Square model. By this OLS model, after controlling for other factors, the marriage wage premium is 35%. There is also effect of marriage on hours worked. The men worked more when they are getting married (hours worked increase by 19%). The second model is the Quantile Regression model. By this model, after controlling for other factors, the marriage wage premium is 56% (greater result obtained by using Quantile 0.1). The men worked more when they are getting married (hours worked increase by 39% with using Quantile 0.1). Overall, the marriage premium that obtained in this study was pretty high if we compare to previous study in other countries. When Indonesian men get married, they will have more responsibilities. Usually when getting married, his wife will leave her job and focus on home matter, so that married men will work harder and fully responsible for their new family. It thus confirmed the potentiality of Indonesian men will tend to get higher wage and work harder when getting married. Keywords: Marriage Premium, Ordinary Least Square Model, Quantile Regression Model, Wage and Hours Worked.