We investigate the role of employment in enabling and constraining marriage for young men and women in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. Survival analysis methods for age at marriage are applied to comparable labor market panel surveys from Egypt (2012), Jordan (2010), and Tunisia (2014), which include detailed labor market histories. For men, employment and especially high-quality employment are associated with more rapid transitions to marriage. For women, past—but not contemporaneous—employment statuses are associated with more rapid transitions to marriage. After addressing endogeneity using residual-inclusion methods for the case of public sector employment (a type of high-quality employment), we find that such employment significantly accelerates marriage for men in Egypt and women in Egypt and Tunisia. The potential of high-quality employment to accelerate marriage may make queuing in unemployment while seeking high-quality employment a worthwhile strategy.

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就业在中东和北非促进和限制婚姻中的作用

我们调查了在埃及、约旦和突尼斯，就业在促进和限制年轻男女结婚方面的作用。结婚年龄的生存分析方法适用于埃及（2012 年）、约旦（2010 年）和突尼斯（2014 年）的可比劳动力市场面板调查，其中包括详细的劳动力市场历史。对于男性来说，就业，尤其是高质量的就业，与更快地过渡到婚姻有关。对于女性来说，过去——但不是同时期——的就业状况与更快地过渡到婚姻有关。在公共部门就业（一种高质量就业）的案例中使用剩余包含方法解决内生性问题后，我们发现这种就业显着加速了埃及的男性和埃及和突尼斯的女性的婚姻。