On Marriage and Migration

Stark, Oded (1988): On Marriage and Migration. Published in: European Journal of Population , Vol. 4, (1988)

Abstract

Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market equilibrium. This facilitates identification of several novel and testable hypotheses.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: no keywords
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J12 - Marriage ; Marital Dissolution ; Family Structure ; Domestic Abuse

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