Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … 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 …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be …

differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …. The finding for intermarried female households is reversed, and gender-based specialization increases, when controls for …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …

estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects …

males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …