Migration Decisions of Dual-earner Families: An Application of Multilevel Modeling

Swain, Li Li; Garasky, Steven

doi:10.1007/s10834-006-9046-3

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“…Ignoring the combination of education in the household, many papers find that the education of the wife has a small and insignificant effect on family migration once the education of the husband has been controlled for (e.g. Lichter (1982), Nivalainen (2004, Swain and Garasky (2007) and Compton and Pollak (2007, Table 2, column C)).…”

Section: Educational Earnings Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Foged

2016

Labour Economics

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Section: Educational Earnings Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

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2016

Labour Economics

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“…13 A significant portion of Indian migrants in the U.S. have a high level of education. This is not surprising-the literature on migration recognizes that the likelihood of migrating increases with educational attainment (see Swain and Garasky 2007). 14 Respondents were allowed to choose multiple destinations for their remittances.…”

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An Exploratory Study of Financial Remittances Among Non-Resident Indians in the United States

Gupta

Hegde

2009

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…The implication is that family migration decisions should have become more consistent with the human capital model over time. And, indeed, more recent studies, with a few important exceptions (Compton and Pollak 2007;Nivalainen 2004;Shauman 2010), have found that the relative effect of the husband's and wife's human capital characteristics in shaping the migration decision has become more symmetrical (Brandén 2013;Eliasson et al forthcoming;Rabe 2011;Smits, Mulder, and Hooimeijer 2003;Smits, Mulder, and Hooimeijer 2004;Swain and Garasky 2007).…”

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All tied up: Tied staying and tied migration within the United States, 1997 to 2007

Cooke¹

2013

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDThe family migration literature presumes that women are cast into the role of the tied migrant. However, clearly identifying tied migrants is a difficult empirical task, since it requires the identification of a counterfactual: who moved but did not want to? OBJECTIVESThis research develops a unique methodology to directly identify both tied migrants and tied stayers in order to investigate their frequency and determinants. METHODSUsing data from the 1997 through 2009 U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), propensity score matching is used to match married individuals with comparable single individuals to create counterfactual migration behaviors: who moved but would not have moved had they been single (tied migrants) and who did not move but would have moved had they been single (tied stayers). RESULTSTied migration is relatively rare and not limited just to women: rates of tied migration are similar for men and women. However, tied staying is both more common than tied migration and equally experienced by men and women. Consistent with the body of empirical evidence, an analysis of the determinants of tied migration and tied staying demonstrates that family migration decisions are imbued with gender. CONCLUSIONSAdditional research is warranted to validate the unique methodology developed in this paper and to confirm its results. One line of future research should be to examine the effects of tied staying, along with tied migration, on well-being, union stability, employment, and earnings.

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Migration Decisions of Dual-earner Families: An Application of Multilevel Modeling

Cited by 42 publications

References 38 publications

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Family migration and relative earnings potentials

An Exploratory Study of Financial Remittances Among Non-Resident Indians in the United States

All tied up: Tied staying and tied migration within the United States, 1997 to 2007

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