the extended family. The model with extended families predicts that migration decisions may become freer than in the … husband-wife model because spouses are not more likely to be tied to their partners than members of the extended family. That … is, marital status is a smaller deterrent to migration in extended family settings relative to nuclear families. I …

, labour market outcomes may also depend on local family resources. We investigate how men's and women's labour market outcomes … differ between (1) those who migrated and those who did not; and (2) those who live close to family and those who live … the role of living close to family in labour market outcomes. We used a sample of labour market participants from the …

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …

rate and settlement in areas where unemployment is high. This paper tests the relevance of family ties in explaining … puzzle of the role played by the nuclear and the extended family in the decision to move …

migration (i.e., with and without family migration) that has been derived from the intra-household bargaining problem among … psychological cost on unskilled labour which caused distress among the urban migrant workers. A family-based migration equilibrium …

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …