Family migration and the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands, 1977-1996
✍ Scribed by Smits, Jeroen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1077-3495
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✦ Synopsis
This paper examines the effects of longdistance migration on the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands using data from the 1977 and 1995/96 labour-force surveys. The results show that married women who migrated in the year before the interview to another province participated less in paid employment than other married women. The negative effect on the wife's employment is stronger for longer moves (crossing at least two provincial boundaries) than for shorter ones (over one provincial boundary) and was somewhat weaker in 1995/96 than in 1977. The strength of the migration effect also varies among different groups of married women. In 1995/96, women with a high educational level and women who live in the Randstad experienced less negative effects of migration. At the same time, the negative effects of migration were stronger for women with children at home and for women whose husbands held prestigious jobs.