Table 6.
Effect of Spouse’s Occupational Mobility on Own Earnings
| Couple Type | β2 Estimate |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Full Sample | No Child Younger Than 18 | Child Younger Than 18 | |
| Power Couple | |||
| Husband | 0.029 (0.076) | −0.031 (0.082) | 0.078 (0.088) |
| Wife | −1.01*** (0.176) | −0.594*** (0.110) | −1.26*** (0.219) |
| N | 153,362 | 58,293 | 95,069 |
| Husband Only College | |||
| Husband | −0.044 (0.201) | 0.246 (0.178) | −0.209 (0.250) |
| Wife | −1.01*** (0.220) | −0.748*** (0.146) | −1.15*** (0.284) |
| N | 77,874 | 31,096 | 46,778 |
| Wife Only College | |||
| Husband | −0.042 (0.077) | −0.058 (0.127) | −0.012 (0.076) |
| Wife | −0.152 (0.210) | −0.079 (0.154) | −0.246 (0.272) |
| N | 80,901 | 30,088 | 50,813 |
| Neither College | |||
| Husband | −0.669*** (0.152) | −0.583*** (0.157) | −0.701*** (0.153) |
| Wife | −0.117 (0.175) | 0.045 (0.176) | −0.225 (0.192) |
| N | 374,284 | 139,700 | 234,584 |
Notes: The sample is as described in Table 1, excluding couples in which either partner is without earnings in 1999. Dependent variable is the logarithm of own earnings in 1999. The table reports estimates of β2 from Eq. (3), which is the coefficient on the migration rate in the spouse’s occupation-education group. Measurement of explanatory variables and couple groupings are described in the notes of Tables 1 and 3. Regressions include the same controls listed in the notes of Table 4, with the addition of occupation fixed-effects. Standard errors, shown in parentheses, are clustered by spouse’s occupation-education group.
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p < .001