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BRIDES FOR SALE: CROSS‐BORDER MARRIAGES AND FEMALE IMMIGRATION
Author(s) -
Kawaguchi Daiji,
Lee Soohyung
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/ecin.12411
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , immigration , marriage market , demographic economics , economics , macro , empirical evidence , east asia , macro level , development economics , political science , china , law , medicine , macroeconomics , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , programming language
Developed East Asian countries import a large number of women from abroad as brides every year, although such cross‐border marriages virtually did not exist 20 years ago. With a theoretical framework and empirical evidence, we argue that developed Asian countries' demand for foreign brides is the consequence of improvement in women's economic status and gender‐discriminative household arrangements that insufficiently incorporate women's improved status in marriage. We offer sets of empirical evidence in line with our argument, using various macro‐ and microlevel datasets. ( JEL A12, J12, J61)