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Title: The Effects of Status Inconsistency between Spouses on Migration: Analysis of NLSY79 Couples
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Lee, Ji-Youn Berry, Eddy Helen Toney, Michael B. |
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The Effects of Status Inconsistency between Spouses on Migration: Analysis of NLSY79 Couples Presented: Minneapolis, MN, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2003. Also: http://paa2003.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.asp?submissionId=62819 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Earnings, Husbands; Earnings, Wives; Education; Educational Status; Family Resources; Migration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the concept of status inconsistency and family resources theory as the base, we test influences of relative educational and income status between spouses on family migration. Panel data from the NLSY79 indicates that only one form of status inconsistency within the couple do affect the probability of migration. The greater educational status of wives decreases the probability of migration, while the wife's relative economic position does not depress the likelihood of migration. However, we find that there is the gendered difference in the effect of status inconsistency on the probability of migration. A spouse's higher status has an impact on a wife's probability of migration but does not affect a husband's migration propensity in a comparable situation. It cannot be accounted by both the human capital and the family resource theory, since the asymmetrical power relation between husbands and wives seems to be imposed outside the family. |
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Lee, Ji-Youn, Eddy Helen Berry and Michael B. Toney. "The Effects of Status Inconsistency between Spouses on Migration: Analysis of NLSY79 Couples." Presented: Minneapolis, MN, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2003. |