Family Migration Decisions

Mincer, Jacob

doi:10.1086/260710

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“…In essence, it controls for unobserved heterogeneity between households which affects the propensity of migration among their members. This approach also provides further insight into the health selectivity of migration because it 15 conceptualizes migration as a household decision-making process, which is often documented in developing countries (Bhattacharyya, 1985;Lauby & Stark, 1988;Mincer, 1978). In other words, the FE model examines not only the question of whether migrants tend to be healthier on average than nonmigrants, but also whether within a household, healthier members are more likely to move than less healthy members.…”

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Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

2008

Social Science & Medicine

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Previous studies have shown that immigrants are generally healthier than the native-born populations of receiving societies, a result generally attributed to the positive selection of migrants with respect to health. This hypothesis, however, has not been adequately evaluated due to data limitations. Using high-quality longitudinal data from Indonesia, I explicitly examine the health selectivity hypothesis, also referred to as the healthy migrant hypothesis, with respect to internal migration. Specifically, I study whether pre-migration health status affects the likelihood of migration by comparing those from the sending population who do and do not move. Results show that migrants in Indonesia do tend to be selected with respect to health and that this aspect of selection is robust to household unobserved heterogeneity.However, the strength and direction of the health-migration association vary by different types of migration and distinctive dimensions of health.

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Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

2008

Social Science & Medicine

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“…This research frames the effects of union dissolution on migration within the context of family migration decision-making (see DaVanzo 1976;Sandell 1977, andMincer 1978 for a discussion of basic concepts). The family context is relevant for two reasons.…”

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“…The family context is relevant for two reasons. First, previous family migration decisions determine the place of residence at the time of dissolution, which in turn influences the consequent post-dissolution migration decision (Mincer 1978). Hence, it is necessary to understand the structure of previous family migration decisions in order to understand the nature of migration decisions at the time of dissolution.…”

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“…The basic premise of family migration research is that it is difficult to satisfy the migration ambitions of all family members (DaVanzo 1976;Sandell 1977;Mincer 1978). One way to think about this is in terms of what may be called 'locational conflict': family members likely have varying and conflicting locational ambitions.…”

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“…The exit of a partner -or any family member for that matter -from a family should therefore reduce locational conflict and present an opportunity to move to a more ideal location (e.g., for job opportunities, proximity to family members, access to schools, to form a new union, etc.) (Mincer 1978;Das, de Valk, and Merz 2016). Therefore, one would expect union dissolution to be associated with an increase in migration rates.…”

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Family migration and the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands, 1977-1996

Smits

1999

Int. J. Popul. Geogr.

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This paper examines the effects of long‐distance migration on the labour‐force participation of married women in the Netherlands using data from the 1977 and 1995/96 labour‐force surveys. The results show that married women who migrated in the year before the interview to another province participated less in paid employment than other married women. The negative effect on the wife's employment is stronger for longer moves (crossing at least two provincial boundaries) than for shorter ones (over one provincial boundary) and was somewhat weaker in 1995/96 than in 1977. The strength of the migration effect also varies among different groups of married women. In 1995/96, women with a high educational level and women who live in the Randstad experienced less negative effects of migration. At the same time, the negative effects of migration were stronger for women with children at home and for women whose husbands held prestigious jobs. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Family Migration Decisions

Cited by 1,065 publications

References 4 publications

Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

Union dissolution and migration

Family migration and the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands, 1977-1996

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