Collaborative Research: Household Relations, Migration Decisions, and Employment

9511134 SBR-9511129 SBR-9511108理查德·比尔斯借用维多利亚·劳森安德鲁·莫里森北卡罗来纳州-教堂山大学华盛顿杜兰大学合作研究：家庭关系、移民决定和就业结果这项合作研究提案要求提供资金，以进行实地研究以及对家庭内部关系、不同家庭成员的移民决定以及目的地地区的就业结果进行定量和定性分析。研究问题和设计是两位经济学家、一位地理学家和一位生物统计学家合作的结果。田野区域是厄瓜多尔的几个城市地区。厄瓜多尔的特点是，在经济结构由政策引起的快速变化的背景下，城市人口迅速增长(包括通过迁入)。实地工作分三个阶段进行，历时18个月：对目的地城市的移徙家庭和非移徙家庭进行广泛调查；对主要原籍地区的住户进行调查；对目的地地区的移徙者进行深入的个案调查，以通过详细审查生活、家庭和工作历史之间的联系来补充和扩展调查结果。结果将：关注家庭结构和动态对移徙进程的影响；将移徙作为个人、家庭和当地背景现象的研究传统结合起来；并将移徙动机与目的地的就业结果联系起来。

SBR-9511134 SBR-9511129 SBR-9511108 Richard Bilsborrow Victoria Lawson Andrew Morrison U.N.C. - Chapel Hill U. Washington Tulane U. Collaborative Research: Household Relations, Migration Decisions, and Employment Outcomes This collaborative research proposal requests funding to conduct field research and quantitative and qualitative analyses of intra-household relationships, migration decisions by different household members, and employment outcomes in destination regions. The research questions and design are the result of collaboration among two economists, a geographer, and a biostatistician. The field area is several urban areas in Ecuador. The Ecuadorian setting is characterized by rapid urban population growth (including via in-migration) in the context of rapid, policy-induced, changes in economic structure. The field work entails three stages over 18 months: extensive surveys of migrant and non-migrant households in destination cities; household surveys in the main origin areas; and in-depth case histories for migrants in destination areas to complement and extend the survey findings through detailed examinations of the connections between life, household, and work histories. The results will: focus attention on household structures and dynamics as influences on migration processes; combine research traditions of migration as an individual, household and local-context phenomenon; and relate migration motivations to employment outcomes at the destination.