predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family …A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable … to one of the partners while results are less clear for small dissimilarities within the couple, suggesting that gender …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment on out-migration by distinguishing between return and onward migration …, unemployment and out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. Our findings suggest that unemployment triggers … return migration more than onward migration. When total earnings are low unemployment increases the hazard of return …

. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among males, while gender discrimination has a large effect on the …

variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …

equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model …We develop and estimate a theory-consistent gravity model for interregional migration flows in the presence of … unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity …

married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in … married women more likely to be employed and to secure suitable jobs after family migration. We find no evidence for …