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Product Description A successful career is seldom a purely individual achievement. It has been shown that in addition to a person's own talents and efforts, resources provided by parents and friends can help a person to become successful. Whether a spouse's resources have a similar effect is the topic of the present study. To be successful at work, does it matter who you have married? More specifically, this study attempts to answer questions such as whether unemployed husbands are more or less likely to find employment if their wife is employed. Does it facilitate or impede a wife's career if her husband has a university degree? Is a wife more or less likely to interrupt her career if her husband's earnings are high? To answer these questions, economic and sociological ideas are combined and elaborated. Recent data on the labor market position of couples in the Netherlands are analyzed, including longitudinal data on the coupled careers' of spouses. From the Back Cover A successful career is seldom a purely individual achievement. It has been shown that in addition to a person's own talents and efforts, resources provided by parents and friends can help a person to become successful. Whether a spouse's resources have a similar effect is the topic of the present study. To be successful at work, does it matter who you have married? More specifically, this study attempts to answer questions such as whether unemployed husbands are more or less likely to find employment if their wife is employed. Does it facilitate or impede a wife's career if her husband has a university degree? Is a wife more or less likely to interrupt her career if her husband's earnings are high? To answer these questions, economic and sociological ideas are combined and elaborated. Recent data on the labor market position of couples in the Netherlands are analyzed, including longitudinal data on the `coupled careers' of spouses. About the Author Wim Bernasco studied social