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Title: Family Migration Largely Unresponsive to Wife's Employment
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Spitze, Glenna D. |
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Family Migration Largely Unresponsive to Wife's Employment Sociology and Social Research 70,3 (April 1986): 231-234 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: Journal has ceased publication, check OCLC - Worldcat for libraries holdings. Keyword(s): Family Influences; Husbands, Influence; Life Cycle Research; Migration; Wives, Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the influence of a wife's job opportunities on the decision of a family to migrate, using data on white families from the NLS Young and Mature Women cohorts. A model was tested which included the influences of family life-cycle stage, community ties, husband's socioeconomic status, and wife's employment. Cross-tabulations and regression analyses suggest no overall wife employment status effect (though some significant effects were found for certain age groups). Suggestions for further research include analyses of: (1) migration patterns of families with high steady incomes in which the earnings of the wife are relatively equal to those of the husband; and (2) the ways by which all family members' individual preferences and intra-family influences combine to affect the migration decision-making process. |
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Spitze, Glenna D. "Family Migration Largely Unresponsive to Wife's Employment." Sociology and Social Research 70,3 (April 1986): 231-234.
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