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Title: Family Migration and Wives' Employment
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Spitze, Glenna D. |
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Family Migration and Wives' Employment Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1983 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Black Family; Earnings; Employment; Job Satisfaction; Migration; Occupations, Female; Variables, Independent - Covariate Traditionally, family migration has been explained in terms of job opportunities of individuals or family heads, treating wives implicitly as tied movers or stayers. This research builds upon recent revisions which take into account women's rising employment, using a dual-earner family model. It also tests for tied migration as a contributing cause of the sex earnings gap by measuring effects of migration on earnings and other employment characteristics and by measuring the duration of any effects found. Using data from the NLS Young and Mature Women surveys, it is found that reasons for moving are similar for whites and blacks, and that only around five percent of moves could be precipitated by a wife's job offer or transfer. For whites, both wife's employment and earnings deter migration, mainly for women with high earnings and middle earnings shares, and only up to the middle thirties. For blacks, wife's employment does not deter migration although for dual-earner black couples, wife's weeks worked have a negative impact. Young white employed women who are satisfied with their jobs are less likely to move, as are those whose husbands approve of their working. Black husband-wife couples are less likely than whites to move but this is not due to the combined operation of the independent variables examined here. White women who move are less likely to be employed, work fewer weeks, and earn less a year later. A move also decreases job satisfaction for mature women. These consequences last only one to two years. Policy implications are discussed. |
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Spitze, Glenna D. "Family Migration and Wives' Employment." Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1983. |