Migration, gender and the household structure: Changes in earnings among young adults in Sweden

This paper investigates the gendered economic outcome of migration among young adults. The results, achieved using a unique database containing the entire Swedish population, show that men's earnings are positively influenced by migration, whereas changes in women's earnings have no such obvious connection to migration. Other individual background variables are further shown to affect change in earnings differently for men and women when migrating. Most importantly, when men and women are analysed according to household type, it is obvious that children cause the largest variations. Migrating was more disadvantageous for women with children, while other groups gained from migrating.