Economic Returns to Migration: Marital Status and Gender Differences

In: Social science quarterly, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 108-121

Abstract

An examination of the relationship between economic returns to migration & gender & marital status, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey on a matched group of 522 M & 899 F migrants & a proportionate sample of nonmigrants. Results indicate that migration returns associate with marital status. Men separating from their wives & never-married women experience positive migration returns. Married women, as tied movers or stayers, have reduced earnings constrained by familial situations. Nonmigrating men separating from their wives, with reduced earnings, appear to be tied to a labor market. 4 Tables, 19 References. HA