Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147866 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10180
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of husband centered migration. Couples are more likely to migrate if household earnings potential is disproportionally due to one partner, and families react equally strongly to a male and a female relative advantage in educational earnings potential. These results are driven by households with a strong relative advantage to one of the partners while results are less clear for small dissimilarities within the couple, suggesting that gender identity norms may play a role when the opportunity costs of adhering to them are small.
Subjects: 
gender identity norms
family migration
international migration
selection
JEL: 
F22
D19
J16
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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