Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status

@article{Geist2012DifferentRD,
  title={Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status},
  author={Claudia Geist and Patricia McManus},
  journal={Demography},
  year={2012},
  volume={49},
  pages={197-217},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23141436}
}
It is found that household earnings and income and gender specialization increase following job migration, and migrating women who contributed as equals to the household economy before the move are no more likely than nonmigrant women to exit work or to work part-time.
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