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- Title
Migration and career attainment of power couples: the roles of city size and human capital composition.
- Authors
Simon, Curtis J
- Abstract
Costa and Kahn (2000, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115: 1287–1315) documented that power couples tended to be located in large cities, postulating a need to solve a co-location problem peculiar to dual-career, highly educated spouses. Using data from the 2008 to 2014 American Community Surveys, I find that young full-power couples are more likely to move to larger, better-educated cities relative to couples in which just the husband has a college degree and wife-only power couples more likely than couples in which neither spouse has a college degree. I also present new evidence that larger, better-educated cities offer superior joint husband-and-wife career outcomes as measured by occupational attainment for wives and husbands with college degrees.
- Subjects
POWER (Social sciences); HUMAN capital
- Publication
Journal of Economic Geography, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 2, p505
- ISSN
1468-2702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jeg/lby009