Spousal-Residence Separation among Chinese Young Couples

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ID4828375
AutoresZhongyuan Ma (0000-0003-0032-4155, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), K-L Liaw (McMaster University), Yi Zeng (0000-0002-7667-9115, Peking University)
Año1996
Volumen28
Número5
Páginas877-890
Fecha de publicación1996-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a280877
PMID12347392
OpenAlexW2036807962
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas5

Spousal-residence separation has become a serious social problem in China since the Cultural Revolution. Apart from housing shortages, the government's migration control, through the restriction on urban-household registration, is a main contributor to the separation. Based on the microdata of the 1987 National Population Survey, we find that the variation in spousal-residence separations among Chinese young couples in the mid-1980s is well explained by personal and household factors within a multivariate model. The separations were aggravated by migrations for the reasons of employment or education. Although marriage migrations reduced the number of separations, those who had been married for a short period of time (particularly newlyweds) were more prone to be separated. It is ironic that the higher a person's level of education, the greater the tendency for them to suffer the pain of spousal-residence separation. Household status could also be a very important factor: the lower the household status of a married individual, the more likely that he (or she) would be separated from their spouse

Census · China · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Multivariate analysis · Population · Residence · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Spouse · Statistics · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology