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Does Marriage Affect Men’s Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Indonesia

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Dina Agnesia Sihombing1, *
1Institut Bisnis dan Multimedia asmi, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: dinaagnesia@ibmasmi.ac.id
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Dina Agnesia Sihombing
Available Online 21 July 2022.
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10.2991/aebmr.k.220702.069How to use a DOI?
Keywords
marriage premium; ordinary least square model; quantile regression model; wage and hours worked
Abstract

This paper investigates how marriage affects wages and hours worked. Using data from Labor Force Survey Indonesia 2015, we can investigate the impact of marriage on Indonesian 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 model’s regression analysis. The first model is Ordinary Least Square (OLS) model. By this OLS model, after controlling for other factors, the marriage wage premium is 35%. There is also impact 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 married (hours worked increase by 39% using Quantile 0.1). Overall, the marriage premium obtained in this study was pretty high compared to previous studies 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 matters so that married men will work harder and be fully responsible for their new family. It thus confirmed the potentiality that Indonesian men will tend to get a higher wage and work harder when getting married.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eighth Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA-8 2021)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
21 July 2022
ISBN
10.2991/aebmr.k.220702.069
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/aebmr.k.220702.069How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
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