Collaborative Research: Household Relations, Migration Decisions, and Employment

Richard Bilsborrow Victoria Lawson Andrew Morrison u.c. - Chapel Hill U.华盛顿杜兰U.合作研究：家庭关系，移民决策和就业结果本合作研究提案要求资助进行实地研究和定量和定性分析家庭内部关系，不同家庭成员的移民决策，以及目的地地区的就业结果。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。该地区是厄瓜多尔的几个城市地区。厄瓜多尔环境的特点是城市人口快速增长（包括通过移民），经济结构的快速，政策引起的变化。实地工作分为三个阶段，为期18个月：对目的城市的移徙和非移徙家庭进行广泛调查；主要来源地的住户调查；并通过对生活、家庭和工作经历之间联系的详细检查，为目的地区移民提供深入的个案历史，以补充和扩展调查结果。结果将集中注意家庭结构和动态对移徙过程的影响；结合移民作为个人、家庭和地方背景现象的研究传统；并将移民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.