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A New Look at Family Migration and Women’s Employment Status
Author(s) -
Boyle Paul,
Feng Zhiqiang,
Gayle Ver
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00608.x
Subject(s) - demographic economics , longitudinal data , british household panel survey , internal migration , state (computer science) , selection (genetic algorithm) , panel data , psychology , labour economics , economics , sociology , demography , population , econometrics , algorithm , computer science , artificial intelligence
Family migration has a negative impact on women’s employment status. Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (3,617 women; 22,354 women/wave observations) we consider two neglected issues. First, instead of relying on the distance moved to distinguish employment‐related migrations, we use information on the reason for moving, allowing us to separate employment‐related moves, stimulated by the man or the woman, from other moves. Second, we consider selection effects and the role of state dependence in relation to women’s employment status prior to moving. Moving for the sake of the man’s job has a significant negative effect on subsequent employment status for previously employed women. Women who were not employed previously benefited only slightly from family migration.