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Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be better explained by studying marriage and migrationjointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market equilibrium. This facilitates identification of several novel and testable hypotheses.
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C'est en étudiantconjointement le mariage et la migration que l'on peut expliquer le mieux ces deux phénomènes et d'autres qui leur sont liés, tels la stabilité matrimoniale, la fécondité et l'investissement en capital humain. L'auteur adopte cette démarche pour étudier le rôle de la migration dans la détermination d'un équilibre simultané du marché du travail et du marché matrimonial. Ceci facilite la formulation de plusieurs hypothèses originales qui peuvent être testées.
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Acknowledgements: This paper is a revised version of Harvard University Migration and Development Programme, Discussion Paper no. 22. I have benefitted from the advice and suggestions of Ansley J. Coale, Eliakim Katz, H. Elizabeth Peters, Paul A. Samuelson, Avia Spivak and Vibhooti Shukla.
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Stark, O. On marriage and migration. Eur J Population 4, 23–37 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01797105
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01797105