Abstract
In this article we estimate the effect of spousal labour force participation on the participation of older men in Australia. We find that the decision of a wife to work or not influences positively, and in a causal fashion, the decision of her husband to work or not. We use counterfactual analysis to estimate the impact of the increasing labour force participation of a wife on her husband's participation. We find that the increased labour force participation of married women observed between 2002 and 2011 has been responsible for a 4 percentage point increase in the participation rate of their husbands.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | gpu054 |
| Pages (from-to) | 310-333 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Oxford Economic Papers |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2015 |
Keywords
- J14
- J21