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Martin Dribe. Photo.

Martin Dribe

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Martin Dribe. Photo.

Migration, Marriage and Social Mobility: Women in Sweden 1880-1900

Author

  • Martin Dribe
  • Björn Eriksson
  • Francesco Scalone

Summary, in English

We study the intergenerational social mobility of women by looking at how migration was associated with socioeconomic marriage mobility using complete-count census data for Sweden. The censuses 1880–1900 have been linked at the individual level, enabling us to follow almost 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 by SES. These results highlight the importance of migration for women's intergenerational social mobility during industrialization.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

93-93

Publication/Series

Explorations in Economic History

Volume

71

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economic History

Status

Published

Project

  • Landskrona Population Study

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0014-4983