Working Papers, Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus
No 03-27:
Marriage Migration: Just another case of positive assortative matching?
Aycan Celikaksoy ()
, Helena Skyt Nielsen ()
and Mette Verner ()
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; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: J12; J15; (follow links to similar papers)
30 pages, May 26, 2003
Published in Review of Economics of the Household, 4, pp271-293, 2006
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