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Title: Sex Asymmetry in Family Migration: Familial Gender Roles or Occupational Inequality?

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Despite significant increases in womens labor force attachment, occupational prestige and proportionate contribution to family income, the empirical evidence indicates that long-distance family migration continues to be motivated disproportionately by the employment dynamics of the male partner in married-couple families. Researchers have attributed this sex asymmetry to one of two influences: (1) individual-level human capital disparities between spouses or (2) familial gender role inequality. I test the human capital and gender-role explanations against Mincer's (1978) structural explanation. The structural perspective attributes sex asymmetry in family migration decision-making to sex inequality and segregation the labor market. This analysis uses individual- and family-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), occupation-level data from the 1970-1990 U.S. Decennial Censuses Integrated Public Use Micro Samples (IPUMS), and discrete-time event history models to estimate the influence of individual-, family- and occupational-level characteristics on family migration events.

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Authors: Shauman, Kimberlee A.

Conference Name: PAA (Population Association of America)

Publisher Location: New York, NY

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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