A Longitudinal Analysis of Family Migration and the Gender Gap in Earnings in the United States and Great Britain

摘要: This article uses longitudinal data for the United States and Great Britain to examine impact of residential mobility childbirth on earnings women, their family earnings, related division by gender. project is first compare explicitly migration women’s it extends prior cross-sectional studies isolated countries providing a direct contrast between two major industrialized nations, using comparable measures. The results indicate that families respond in similar ways both childbirth. In response childbirth, fall at time event recover slowly afterward, but magnitude roughly twice as large migration. However, migration—but not birth child—is also associated with significant increase total because increased husbands’ earnings. As result, effect relative wives husbands These suggest should be given consideration literature gender gap.