Family migration and the economic status of women in Malaysia
Chattopadhyay, A.
International Migration Review 31(2): 338-352
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0197-9183 PMID: 12292875 DOI: 10.2307/2547223Document Number: 269927
Incorporating a lifetime perspective, the paper makes use of the retrospective migration histories of husbands and wives from the second round of the Malaysian Family Life Survey (from 1988) to estimate how joint migration with the husband affects women's socioeconomic achievement. The findings show that family migration depresses the chances of working, but it does not significantly reduce socioeconomic attainment of those who do work. However, when a woman migrates with her husband she does forgo the substantial advantage she could have derived had she moved alone.