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Occupational Status of Rural Outmigrants and Return Migrants 1
Author(s) -
Jong Gordon F.,
Blair Marilou C. Legazpi
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00555.x
Subject(s) - occupational prestige , socioeconomic status , demographic economics , prestige , occupational mobility , geography , socioeconomics , demography , economics , psychology , sociology , population , linguistics , philosophy
This research analyzes the occupational status payoffs to short‐term outmigration and return migration for male workers in a developing country. Using an occupational status model that integrates explanations from the status attainment and migration literatures and longitudinal data from the Philippine Migration Survey, the results show that both outmigrants and return migrants have lower occupational prestige scores than nonmigrants. Regression standardization and decomposition analyses reveal that while rural outmigrants are positively selected on socioeconomic characteristics compared with nonmigrants, their lower occupational prestige scores are largely because their prior farming and fishing occupational experiences does not properly prepare them for the urban labor market Return migrants' lower occupational status scores are due to negative selection on socioeconomic characteristics.