We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our …. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary earner may go either way. We test our theory using population … and couples in which women earned more. The empirical results for dual-earner couples are in line with the theory. The …

We use a unique survey of Danes who have emigrated between 1987 and 2002 to study intra-family decision-making on … family decision-making in a bargaining framework and derive comparative statics to test with our data. Empirically, we find … that family migration decisions are usually a shared preference, but that they are often driven to a larger extent by the …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our … theory. Primary earners in couples are more strongly self-selected with respect to their income than singles, a novel result … that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our … the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way. We test our theory using register data on full population in … Denmark from 1982 to 2010. The empirical results for dual earner couples are in line with the theory.The elasticity of the …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our … theory. Primary earners in couples are more strongly self-selected with respect to their income than singles, a novel result … that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …