Dual Income Couples and Interstate Migration

Bulent Guler

No 898, 2013 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We quantify the contribution of women's labor force attachment on the declining trend in interstate migration. Using CPS and SIPP data, we first document that families in which both spouses have similar incomes, the propensity to migrate is significantly lower than in families with unequal spousal earnings. We construct a labor search model in which households make location, marriage, and divorce decisions. We calibrate the model to match aggregate U.S. statistics on mobility, marriage and labor flows and use it to quantify the effect of a fall in the gender wage gap on interstate migration. Narrowing the gender wage gap increases the women's contribution to the total family income; it induces a higher share of families with both spouses working and more couples with similar incomes. Our model predicts that the observed change in the gender wage gap accounts for 33% of the drop in family migration since 1991.

Date: 2013
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