TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Xing, Chunbing
AU  - Yuan, Xiaoyan
AU  - Zhang, Junfu
        TI  - City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China
        PY  - 2022/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15549
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15549
        AB  - Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large cities help alleviate the colocation problem of married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in larger cities, and this is mainly because large cities have higher employer and population densities. Large cities make married women more likely to be employed and to secure suitable jobs after family migration. We find no evidence for alternative explanations for the correlation between city size and married women's relative wages.

        KW  - city size
KW  - family migration
KW  - colocation choice
KW  - gender gap
        ER  -