Love is Elsewhere: Internal Migration and Marriage Prospects in China.

ABSTRACT: Migration and marriage are major life events that might interact and be jointly decided. Places with good labor market opportunities may or may not provide good marriage options. In this paper, I quantify gains and losses in marriage prospects for unmarried migrants and natives during the population redistribution driven by internal migration. I also examine how the experiences differ by individual characteristics and regional factors. The analysis measures marriage prospects using the availability ratio (AR) with adaptive assortative matching norms for every unmarried individual from sample data of the 2010 China population census. The AR quantifies the intensity of competition for suitable partners in the local marriage market. I compare (1) migrants' current AR with an alternative AR if

SUBMITTER: Xiong W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9981853 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature