Why Have the Labor Force Participation Rates of Older Men Increased since the Mid‐1990s?
利用美国、加拿大和英国的数据，发现老年男性劳动参与率上升的四分之一到一半可由其妻子劳动参与率上升的带动效应解释。
This article seeks to explain the substantial increases in older men's labor force participation rates observed since the mid-1990s. Using data from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, I exploit the cohort effects driving recent increases in older women's participation rates to identify the effect of a wife's participation decision on her husband's participation decision. I then decompose the changes in older married men's participation rates, demonstrating that husbands' responses to increases in wives' participation in the labor force can explain one-fourth, one-half, and one-third of the increase in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, respectively. (c) 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.