Determinants of occupation in employment of husbands and wives.

Este artigo analisa a probabilidade de ocupa??o no mercado de trabalho de maridos e esposas e aponta fatores que possam estar atuando de maneira mais ou menos intensa nessa decis?o. Essa an?lise ? feita para a ?rea urbana do Brasil atrav?s do modelo Probit Bivariado Aparentemente N?o-Relacionado e utilizando os microdados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domic?lios de 2006 com todas as caracter?sticas do seu plano amostral complexo (peso, estrato eunidade prim?ria). Os resultados obtidos mostraram que h? intera??o das caracter?sticas que determinam a ocupa??o de maridos e esposas no mercado de trabalho.This article analyzes the occupation probability in the labor market of husbands and wives and factors that can be appears acting in way more or less intense in this decision. This analysis is made through the Seemingly Unrelated Bivariate Probit model and using the microdatas of the National Household Sample Survey of 2006 with all the characteristics of the complex sampling design (weight, strata and primary sampling unit). The obtained results showed that there is interaction of the characteristics that determine the occupation of husbands and wives in the labor market