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From Tied Movers to Tied Stayers: Changes in Family Migration Decision-Making, 1989-98 to 2009-18
dc.contributor.advisor | Kim, ChangHwan | |
dc.contributor.author | Erickson, Matthew | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-20T15:29:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-20T15:29:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16482 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30086 | |
dc.description.abstract | Past research has found that when a dual-career heterosexual married couple migrates to a new labor market, the woman is more likely to be the “tied mover”: the partner whose career suffers as a result of the move. This study investigates possible changes in gendered decision-making related to internal migration among married couples in the United States between the 1990s and the 2010s. Using data from the 1989-98 and 2009-18 Annual Social and Economic Supplements of the Current Population Survey, we examine whether income equality between spouses has become a bigger barrier to migration among married individuals, and we investigate year-to-year changes in income among married migrants compared with their unmarried counterparts. Our findings show a general U-shaped association between wives' share of a married couple's income and that couple's likelihood of moving across state or county lines; in both time periods, couples are least likely to move when their incomes are roughly equal. Among young, well-educated married couples, though, we detect a notable change: Spousal income equality was not a barrier to moving in the 1990s, but it had become one by the 2010s. Among these same couples, however, we find some evidence that a gendered tied-mover effect still remains. If women in dual-career couples are less likely to be tied movers today than they once were, it may be because dual-career couples have become less likely to move for a job opportunity at all, even relative to the broader decline in internal migration across the population. | |
dc.format.extent | 47 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Sociology | |
dc.subject | Family | |
dc.subject | Gender | |
dc.subject | Migration | |
dc.subject | Tied mover | |
dc.subject | Tied stayer | |
dc.subject | Work | |
dc.title | From Tied Movers to Tied Stayers: Changes in Family Migration Decision-Making, 1989-98 to 2009-18 | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Ekerdt, David | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | LaPierre, Tracey | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Sociology | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.A. | |
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dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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