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Wage Suppression Of Married Women Induced By Geographic Immobility, Yesook Merrill
Wage Suppression Of Married Women Induced By Geographic Immobility, Yesook Merrill
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Although the relative geographic immobility associated with married women--as the result of family utility maximization--is a familiar notion, its effect on the male--female wage gap has not been examined empirically, perhaps because of the unavailability of adequate data. Utilizing the 1980 Census, which for the first time identifies the locations of all respondents in metropolitan areas, the present study estimates the impact of sex-related immobility on the male-female wage gap.
To the extent that wives have less market human capital than their husbands, married women may be forced to optimize their employment mainly in the local labor market, unlike their …