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Spousal-Residence Separation among Chinese Young Couples

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  • Z Ma

    (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

  • K-L Liaw

    (Department of Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada)

  • Y Zeng

    (Institute of Population Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China)

Abstract

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.

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  • Z Ma & K-L Liaw & Y Zeng, 1996. "Spousal-Residence Separation among Chinese Young Couples," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 28(5), pages 877-890, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:28:y:1996:i:5:p:877-890
    DOI: 10.1068/a280877
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