@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp7581,
            	author={Mavromaras, Kostas and Zhu, Rong},
            	title={Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation},
            	year={2013},
	month={Aug},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={7581},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7581},
	abstract={In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. 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. In our paper 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 about a 4 percentage points increase in the participation of their mature age husbands.},
	keywords={male employment trends;labour force participation;spousal status;joint decision making;Australia},
            }