The Geographic Mobility of Dual-Career Families: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences

本研究以1970 - 2000年为研究对象，探讨双重职业与异地家庭迁移的关系。拥有两份职业的家庭的增加既鼓励了家庭迁移（因为两个人都有工作机会），又阻碍了迁移（因为当一方有机会时，配偶受到限制）。当前人口调查的研究将调查在何种程度上整体家庭流动性的变化可以用双职业家庭的增长来解释。收入动态小组研究的其他分析将估计配偶的职业特征和当地劳动力市场如何影响家庭迁移决定。这些分析将扩大到调查家庭移徙（或不移徙）的后果中的性别差异。人们普遍认为，女性的职业生涯从家庭迁移中受益最少，但随着夫妇们为了兼顾两种职业而做出迁移决定，这种情况可能正在改变。

This research investigates the inter-relationships between dual careers and long distance family migration from 1970 to 2000. The increase in families with two careers both encourages family migration (because two people are exposed to career opportunities) and discourages migration (because of the constraints on the spouse when one partner has an opportunity). Research with the Current Population Survey will investigate to what extent changes in overall family mobility can be explained by the growth in dual career families. Other analyses with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics will estimate how characteristics of the spouses' occupations and of the local labor market influence family migration decisions. Those analyses will be extended to investigate gender differences in the consequences of family migration (or lack of migration). It is generally believed that women's careers benefit least from family migration, but that may be changing as couples make migration decisions to accommodate both careers.