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Consumption-smoothing, migration and marriage : evidence from rural India

Stark, Oded; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - 1989

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Consumption smoothing, migration and marriage : evidence from rural India

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Stark, Oded - 1987

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On marriage and migration

Stark, Oded - In: European Journal of Population 4 (1988) 1, pp. 23-37

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 …

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Tales of Migration without Wage Differentials: Individual, Family, and Community Contexts

Stark, Oded - In: Institutions and Economic Development (2003) 2, pp. 79-92

By means of examples that pertain to individual, family, and community contexts, it is shown that migration between locations is compatible with a zero expected net earnings differential between locations. The examples give rise to testable predictions that differ sharply from the predictions...

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Remittances, exchange rates and the labor supply of Mexican Migrants in the U.S.

Fox, Marc; Stark, Oded - 1987

This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a...

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