The impact of civil status on women’s wages in Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-41612012000300002Keywords:
marriage, cohabitation, wage differential, sample selectionAbstract
Consensual union, also known as cohabitation, has become more frequent in recent decades in Brazil and many other countries. In this context, some studies have analyzed the impact of marriage on women’s wages. This article analyzes the effects of marital status on Brazilian women’s wages by specifically investigating the individual characteristics of these effects using data from the 2000 Brazilian Census Database. This study concludes that wages differ by up to 15 per cent between married and single women and up to 3 per cent between married and cohabiting women.
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