Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34049 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2240
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally representative Labor Force Survey, the Family Income and Expenditures Survey and the Survey of Overseas Filipinos. Employing alternative empirical specifications of the labor supply function, the study examines the income remittance and the conjugal home-time effects of overseas migration. Addressing the potential endogeneity of income and migration, estimates establish stronger conjugal home time effects of migration for married women and larger remittance income effects for married men.
Subjects: 
Philippines
international migration
remittances
labor supply
conjugal-time allocation
JEL: 
F22
J22
J61
D1
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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