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Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark


  Author: Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Leslie S. Stratton
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Document Date:                  May 2005
Category: Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
Related Categories:
Family Economics > Employment/Unemployment
Family Economics > Socio-economic Status
Parenthood/Childrearing > Fatherhood
 

This paper documents a significant wage gap between married men and women in the United States and investigates whether or not a similar marital earnings differential exists in Denmark.  It finds some evidence of a small male wage premium in that country, but demonstrates that this may be related more to fatherhood than to marriage itself.

 

 

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