In studies of family migration in developed countries, it is implicitly assumed that a wife's market earnings are more difficult to transfer to a new location than her non-market household production. Consequently, employment and the level of market earnings of the wife seem to be negatively...

The literature on internal labor migration is surveyed using a four-fold taxonomic scheme. The potential migrant, as presented in the existing literature, can be viewed as a supplier of labor, an investor in human capital and a consumer of regional amenities such as public goods. The paper...