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Title: Household Migration and the Labor Market Experience of Married Women
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1. Lichter, Daniel T.
Household Migration and the Labor Market Experience of Married Women
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1981
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Earnings, Wives; Migration; Mobility; Regions; Retirement/Retirement Planning

This study attempted to assess the appropriateness of economic models of migration decision-making in explaining the geographic mobility of married women. Two general objectives were pursued: (1) to examine the contribution of the wife's employment-related experiences to the subsequent geographic mobility of their families; and (2) to examine the effect of household migration on the wife's position in the labor market, particularly with respect to her job continuity, earnings, occupational mobility, and job satisfaction. The NLS of Mature Women provided a unique source of data in which to address these issues. Although employment by the wife reduced the probability of family geographic migration, and this relationship generally persisted across various female subgroups, specific characteristics of the wife's job were of little utility in explaining the migration of their families. At least for this age cohort, the wife's earnings, occupation, and job attitudes were not found to be systematically related to family migration, thus suggesting that migration may be largely exogenous to the employment experiences of many women. This general conclusion provided a vivid contrast with patterns of association observed between husbands' job characteristics and family migration.
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Lichter, Daniel T. Household Migration and the Labor Market Experience of Married Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1981.