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Title: Dual Income Couples and Interstate Migration

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: We quantify the contribution of women's labor force attachment to the declining trend ininterstate migration. Using CPS and SIPP data, we rst document that for families in whichboth spouses have similar incomes, the propensity to migrate is signi cantly lower than forfamilies with unequal spousal earnings. We construct a labor search model in which householdsmake location, marriage, and divorce decisions. We calibrate the model to match aggregate U.S.statistics on mobility, marriage and labor ows and use it to quantify the e ect of a fall in thegender wage gap on interstate migration. Narrowing the gender wage gap increases women'scontribution to total family income; it induces a higher share of families with both spousesworking and more couples with similar incomes. Our model predicts that the observed changein the gender wage gap accounts for 35% of the drop in family migration since 1981.

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Authors: Guler, Bulent; Taskin, Ahmet Ali

Publisher: Indiana University at Bloomington

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

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

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