Marriage Migration: Just another case of positive assortative matching?

Abstract: It is a stylized fact that marriage formation generally involves positive assortative matching

(PAM) on education. We test whether this is also the case for immigrants who tend to import

their spouses and potentially use education as an exchange mechanism. We find that only

women match positively on education. For Turks the results robustly confirm PAM, whereas

for Pakistanis there is no evidence of PAM. For men there is local support to the exchange

hypothesis, since cultural assimilation or conflicts with parents, through less spouse import,

increase the likelihood of marrying a highly educated spouse.

Keywords: assortative matching; homogamy; exchange; marriage migration; spouse import (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2003-05-26
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Note: Published in Review of Economics of the Household, 4, pp271-293, 2006
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