Labour force participation of older men in Australia: the role of spousal participation

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dc.contributor.authorMavromaras, K.
dc.contributor.authorZhu, R.
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityKostas Mavromaras, Rong Zhu
dc.identifier.citationOxford Economic Papers, 2015; 67(2):310-333
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/oep/gpu054
dc.identifier.issn0030-7653
dc.identifier.issn1464-3812
dc.identifier.orcidMavromaras, K. [0000-0002-1723-7974]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/111535
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0987972
dc.rights© Oxford University Press 2015 All rights reserved
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpu054
dc.titleLabour force participation of older men in Australia: the role of spousal participation
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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