Author: Li Li Swain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Family migration is a joint function of individual-, family-, and contextual-level effects. The first part of this dissertation develops a multilevel theoretical framework for family migration decision-making. This framework emphasizes an integration of individual-, family-, and contextual-level effects, incorporates a longitudinal perspective-human migration history with both economic and non-economic effects, and acknowledges the family as a decision-making unit of migration analysis. The second part of this dissertation introduces multilevel logit models, which deal especially with hierarchical data structures and yield more accurate statistical conclusions, compared to conventional linear logit models, and explores the impact of individual-, family-, and neighborhood-level factors on family migration. The estimation methodology in this dissertation is motivated by the theoretical framework and is new to the study of family migration. The main data source used is the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a longitudinal survey that is nationally representative of families in the United States in the civilian noninstitutionalized population. There are three main empirical conclusions of this dissertation. First, the individual- and family-level effects display patterns consistent with the theoretical hypotheses and play a much more important role in family migration decisions than do the characteristics at the neighborhood-level. Individual-level factors include husband's race, age, and education. Family-level factors include family income, the earnings difference between husband and wife, number of children, home ownership, and migration history. Second, some evidence supports neighborhood-level effects on family migration, but they are of only secondary importance to the individual- and family-level effects. Third, the findings support the nested structure of family migration. Multilevel analysis is an important research approach to generate a more complete understanding of the phenomenon under study. Because this study considers the clustering structure of the data, the explanatory power of the empirical model is improved.
Internal Migration Decisions of Dual-earner Families
Author: Li Li Swain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Family migration is a joint function of individual-, family-, and contextual-level effects. The first part of this dissertation develops a multilevel theoretical framework for family migration decision-making. This framework emphasizes an integration of individual-, family-, and contextual-level effects, incorporates a longitudinal perspective-human migration history with both economic and non-economic effects, and acknowledges the family as a decision-making unit of migration analysis. The second part of this dissertation introduces multilevel logit models, which deal especially with hierarchical data structures and yield more accurate statistical conclusions, compared to conventional linear logit models, and explores the impact of individual-, family-, and neighborhood-level factors on family migration. The estimation methodology in this dissertation is motivated by the theoretical framework and is new to the study of family migration. The main data source used is the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a longitudinal survey that is nationally representative of families in the United States in the civilian noninstitutionalized population. There are three main empirical conclusions of this dissertation. First, the individual- and family-level effects display patterns consistent with the theoretical hypotheses and play a much more important role in family migration decisions than do the characteristics at the neighborhood-level. Individual-level factors include husband's race, age, and education. Family-level factors include family income, the earnings difference between husband and wife, number of children, home ownership, and migration history. Second, some evidence supports neighborhood-level effects on family migration, but they are of only secondary importance to the individual- and family-level effects. Third, the findings support the nested structure of family migration. Multilevel analysis is an important research approach to generate a more complete understanding of the phenomenon under study. Because this study considers the clustering structure of the data, the explanatory power of the empirical model is improved.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Family migration is a joint function of individual-, family-, and contextual-level effects. The first part of this dissertation develops a multilevel theoretical framework for family migration decision-making. This framework emphasizes an integration of individual-, family-, and contextual-level effects, incorporates a longitudinal perspective-human migration history with both economic and non-economic effects, and acknowledges the family as a decision-making unit of migration analysis. The second part of this dissertation introduces multilevel logit models, which deal especially with hierarchical data structures and yield more accurate statistical conclusions, compared to conventional linear logit models, and explores the impact of individual-, family-, and neighborhood-level factors on family migration. The estimation methodology in this dissertation is motivated by the theoretical framework and is new to the study of family migration. The main data source used is the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a longitudinal survey that is nationally representative of families in the United States in the civilian noninstitutionalized population. There are three main empirical conclusions of this dissertation. First, the individual- and family-level effects display patterns consistent with the theoretical hypotheses and play a much more important role in family migration decisions than do the characteristics at the neighborhood-level. Individual-level factors include husband's race, age, and education. Family-level factors include family income, the earnings difference between husband and wife, number of children, home ownership, and migration history. Second, some evidence supports neighborhood-level effects on family migration, but they are of only secondary importance to the individual- and family-level effects. Third, the findings support the nested structure of family migration. Multilevel analysis is an important research approach to generate a more complete understanding of the phenomenon under study. Because this study considers the clustering structure of the data, the explanatory power of the empirical model is improved.
Dual-Earner Families
Author: Suzan Lewis
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Addressing a significant gap in the literature to date, this book focuses on dual-earner families in the international context. It brings together contributions from a range of countries and continents to examine the issues and developments for dual-earner families located in different socio-cultural, political and economic systems. In particular the book explores the ways in which dual-earner couples in these different contexts are reconstructing gender and family roles to balance the demands of work and the family.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Addressing a significant gap in the literature to date, this book focuses on dual-earner families in the international context. It brings together contributions from a range of countries and continents to examine the issues and developments for dual-earner families located in different socio-cultural, political and economic systems. In particular the book explores the ways in which dual-earner couples in these different contexts are reconstructing gender and family roles to balance the demands of work and the family.
Internal Migration in the Developed World
Author: Tony Champion
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317114493
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to the recent ‘mobilities turn’ within the social sciences. Yet, there is mounting evidence to suggest that this may not be true of all types of mobility, nor apply equally to all geographical contexts. For example, it is now clear that internal migration rates have been falling in the USA since at least the 1980s. To what extent might this trend be true of other developed countries? Drawing on detailed empirical literature, Internal Migration in the Developed World examines the long-term trends in internal migration in a variety of more advanced countries to explore the factors that underpin these changes. Using case studies of the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and Italy, this pioneering book presents a critical assessment of the extent to which global structural forces, as opposed to national context, influence internal migration in the Global North. Internal Migration in the Developed World fills the void in this neglected aspect of migration studies and will appeal to a wide disciplinary audience of researchers and students working in Geography, Migration Studies, Population Studies and Development Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317114493
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to the recent ‘mobilities turn’ within the social sciences. Yet, there is mounting evidence to suggest that this may not be true of all types of mobility, nor apply equally to all geographical contexts. For example, it is now clear that internal migration rates have been falling in the USA since at least the 1980s. To what extent might this trend be true of other developed countries? Drawing on detailed empirical literature, Internal Migration in the Developed World examines the long-term trends in internal migration in a variety of more advanced countries to explore the factors that underpin these changes. Using case studies of the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and Italy, this pioneering book presents a critical assessment of the extent to which global structural forces, as opposed to national context, influence internal migration in the Global North. Internal Migration in the Developed World fills the void in this neglected aspect of migration studies and will appeal to a wide disciplinary audience of researchers and students working in Geography, Migration Studies, Population Studies and Development Studies.
Dual-earner Migration Decisions, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance
Gender, Migration and the Dual Career Household
Author: Irene Hardill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134578512
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households. Adopting a feminist approach, the author links research in economics, sociology, management and business and human geography to explore post-industrial managerial and professional careers. Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which social mobility and spatial mobility are entwined. The author explores the location and mobility decisions of dual career households, examining their personal and household biographies as well as published statistics. Of essential interest to scholars of human geography, sociology and gender studies, this book will also interest those working in organizational, migration and urban studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134578512
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households. Adopting a feminist approach, the author links research in economics, sociology, management and business and human geography to explore post-industrial managerial and professional careers. Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which social mobility and spatial mobility are entwined. The author explores the location and mobility decisions of dual career households, examining their personal and household biographies as well as published statistics. Of essential interest to scholars of human geography, sociology and gender studies, this book will also interest those working in organizational, migration and urban studies.
Two Earner Family Migration
Author: Daniel Morton Mont
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dual-career families
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dual-career families
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Post-apartheid Patterns of Internal Migration in South Africa
Author: P. C. Kok
Publisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796920041
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Popular belief is that urbanisation has increased substantially in the new South Africa, when, in fact, patterns of internal migration have remained static since the late 1970s.
Publisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796920041
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Popular belief is that urbanisation has increased substantially in the new South Africa, when, in fact, patterns of internal migration have remained static since the late 1970s.
Internal Migration
Author: Alan A. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1838
Book Description
Interdisciplinary research view and comparison of the functions and dynamics of internal migration - includes models, case studies, theoretical reflections and implications for regional development policy. Bibliographys, graphs and statistical tables.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1838
Book Description
Interdisciplinary research view and comparison of the functions and dynamics of internal migration - includes models, case studies, theoretical reflections and implications for regional development policy. Bibliographys, graphs and statistical tables.
The Interrelationship of Migration and Earnings of Husbands and Wives in Two Earner Families
Family and Intimate Mobilities
Author: C. Holdsworth
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137305622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137305622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations.