Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242370 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
We examine the employment and earnings effects of long-distance moves for married couples based on a new administrative data set from Germany. Using difference-in-difference propensity score matching, we estimate the average treatment effect for moving couples while precisely accounting for pre-move employment dynamics. Our results show that men's earnings increase significantly after the move, while women suffer large losses in the first years after the move. We shed light on potential mechanisms and show that spouses' earnings response is driven by men moving to larger, higher paying establishments, whereas women move to smaller, lower paying establishments. We explore effect heterogeneity by spouses' relative earnings before the move and find evidence for gender asymmetries.phonology, Spanish, Argentina, phonemes, variation, resyllabification
Subjects: 
Long-distance moves
labor market careers
gender identity norms
JEL: 
J61
J16
R23
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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