The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and the marriage markets is numerous and varied. Despite … and labor market participation. We then analyze the implications of our results for a frictional marriage market allowing … also the employment status and conditions of their spouse. We find that couples with very different productivities have …

equilibrium limited-commitment collective framework that allows for marriage both within and across birth cohorts. Using Panel … within- and across-cohort marital matching. Our model replicates the bivariate marriage distribution by age, and explains … some of the most salient life-cycle patterns of marriage, divorce, remarriage, and time allocation behavior. We use our …

systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

I propose a random search model with ex-ante heterogeneity in ability, endogenous marriage, endogenous labor supply of …

specifications can be treated as a case of horizontal heterogeneity only. -- Matching ; Horizontal Differentiation ; Marriage Markets …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …

and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …