Decomposing the effect of marital status on migration

Jennifer Troyer

Applied Economics Letters, 2002, vol. 9, issue 10, 641-644

Abstract: An econometric technique is developed to decompose the difference in the predicted migration probability of married and unmarried individuals into three parts. This technique allows one to examine the degree to which personal characteristics influence differences in migration between the two groups. The decomposition reveals that differences in human capital characteristics explain only 15.5% of the migration probability gap.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850210124202

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