TY  - JOUR
AU  - Juhn,Chinhui
AU  - Murphy,Kevin M.
TI  - Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5459
PY  - 1996
Y2  - February 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5459
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5459.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Chinhui Juhn
Department of Economics
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5882
Tel: 713/743-3823
Fax: 713/743-3798
E-Mail: cjuhn@uh.edu

Kevin M. Murphy
Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL  60637
Tel: 773/702-7280
Fax: 773/834-3554
E-Mail: murphy@chicagoBooth.edu
AB  - Using data from the March CPS and the 1960 Census, this paper describes earnings and employment changes for married couples in different types of households stratified by the husband's hourly wage. While the declines in male employment and earnings have been greatest for low wage men, employment and earnings gains have been largest for wives of middle and high wage men.  These findings cast doubt on the notion that married women have increased their labor supply in the recent decades to compensate for the disappointing earnings growth of their husbands.  We conclude that own wage effects dominate cross effects between husband and wife in accounting for changes in male and female employment.
ER  -