using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating … grooms. Guided by a model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and … marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women coming from families above a …

in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be … bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women …Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic …

examine the labor supply and wage assimilation of families whose members immigrated together relative to families whose …

. We further examine the labor supply and wage assimilation of families whose members immigrated together relative to …

Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their relation breaks down this influences their … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …

This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and … education are affected by migration. Based on household survey data from Moldova, our results challenge the assertion that those …