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Title: Gender Asymmetry in Family Migration: Occupational Inequality or Interspousal Comparative Advantage?

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This paper examines gender inequality inthe determinants of job-related long-distancemigration among married dual-earner couplesduring the 1980s and 1990s. The analysis testedthe structural explanation, which attributesgender asymmetry in family migration tostructural inequality in the labor market, andthe comparative advantage explanation derivedfrom relative resource theory. The analysisused individual- and family-level data from5,504 Panel Study of Income Dynamics families,occupation-level data from the 1980 2000U.S. Decennial Censuses Integrated Public UseMicro Samples, and discrete-time event historymodels. Gender differences in the determinantsof family migrationwere not explained by genderdifferences in occupational characteristics, butthe results partially support the relative resourcetheory by illustrating the conditioning influenceof interspousal comparative advantage.

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Authors: Shauman, Kimberlee A.

Periodical (Full): Journal of Marriage and Family

Issue: 2

Volume: 72

Pages: 375-392

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Migration and Immigration

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