Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295689 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 20/22
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
We investigate the effects of long-distance moves of married couples on both spouses' earnings, employment and job characteristics based on a new administrative dataset from Germany. Employing difference-in-difference propensity score matching and accounting for spouses' pre-move employment biographies, we show that men's earnings increase significantly after the move, whereas women suffer large losses in the first years. Men's earnings increases are mainly driven by increasing wages and switches to slightly larger and better paying firms. Investigating effect heterogeneity with respect to pre-move relative earnings or for whose job opportunity couples move, confirms strong gender asymmetries in gains to moving.
Subjects: 
Long-distance moves
labour market careers
gender gap
JEL: 
J61
J16
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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