%0 Report
        %A Mavromaras, Kostas
%A Zhu, Rong
        %T Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation
        %D 2013
        %8 2013 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7581
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7581
        %X 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.
        %K male employment trends
%K labour force participation
%K spousal status
%K joint decision making
%K Australia