Martin Dribe
Professor
Migration, Marriage, and Social Mobility : Women in Sweden 1880-1900
Author
Summary, in English
We study the social mobility of women by looking at the connection between migration and marriage outcomes using complete count census data for Sweden. The censuses 1880-1900 have been linked at the individual level, enabling us to follow 100,000 women from their parental home to their new marital household. Marriage market imbalances were not an important push factor for migration but we find a strong association between migration distance and marriage outcomes, both in terms of overall marriage probabilities and in terms of partner selection. These results highlight the importance of migration for women’s social mobility during industrialization.
Department/s
- Centre for Economic Demography
- Department of Economic History
Publishing year
2017
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Papers in Economic Demography
Volume
2017
Issue
1
Full text
Document type
Working paper
Publisher
Centre for Economic Demography
Topic
- Economic History
Status
Published
Project
- The Emergence of Wage Discrimination
- Landskrona Population Study