TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kawaguchi, Daiji
AU  - Lee, Soohyung
        TI  - Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
        PY  - 2012/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6458
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6458
        AB  - Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper argues that two factors account for this rapid increase in "bride importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.


        KW  - immigration
KW  - marriage
KW  - sex ratio imbalance
KW  - international marriages
KW  - cross-border marriages
KW  - assortative matching
        ER  -