Mixed-Race Couple Formation & Bargaining Theory Flashcards
The degree of inequality and segregation between groups will be inversely related to the rate of __________ __________.
intergroup association (Blau 1977)
Define the neoclassical model for family migration?
An individual forgoes a personal gain because he or she derives greater utility from enhancing family well-being than from personal well-being. (Bielby et al. 1992)
Define the social exchange model for family migration?
Social exchange theory invokes the notion of power as the mechanism through which decisions are made. That is, the spouse in command of the most resources is able to impose outcomes that further her or his own goals to the detriment of the partner’s. (Bielby et al. 1992)
When is a wife a tied-stayer?
If the wife is faced with a net gain from a relocation opportunity, but the husband’s net loss is of greater magnitude then forgoing the relocation maximizes family utility as well as the husband’s utility. In this situation, the wife is a “tied stayer”-capitalizing upon her personal utility would make the family worse off, and she stays for the sake of the family. (Bielby et al. 1992)
When is a wife a tied-mover?
If the utility being maximized were family income, the family would relocate if the husband’s gain in earnings in the new location exceeded the absolute value of the wife’s loss (net of the cost of the move). (Bielby et al. 1992)
Define the common preference model of family decision making.
“Common preference” model of the family, which assumes that family members act as though they are maximizing a single utility function.Common preference models imply that all income is “pooled” and then allocated to maximize a single objective function, so that family demand behavior depends on total family income and not the incomes of individual members. (Lundberg et al. 1996)
Define Becker’s alturism model.
Becker’s alturism model, the family consists of a group of purely selfish but rational “kids” and one altruistic parent whose utility function reflects a concern for the well-being of other family members. (Lundberg et al. 1996)
Merton’s exchange thesis asserts that intermarriage is a trade off of what?
Merton’s exchange thesis holds that social and economic resources are needed to trade off against the social disadvantages of race and ethnicity.
Supporting this perspective, studies that directly examine how the relative sizes of different racial groups in states and metropolitan areas influence rates of interracial marriage find that individuals have a greater chance of marrying interracially when their own racial group is _______ than otherracial groups.
smaller (Blau 1994)
What is the effect of being a tied migrant on labor force participation and employment, and who are more likely to be tied migrants?
The overwhelming empirical evidence demonstrates that being a tied migrant harms labor force participation and employment (e.g., Cooke and Speirs 2005), that wives are more likely than men to be tied migrants. (Cooke et al. 2009)
According to our findings, an immigrant group becomes more open over time when its relative size ________ as well as when socioeconomic achievement tends to become ____ dependent on group-based attributes such as its racial and religious composition.
decreases, less (Sporlein et al. 2013)
Instances of exog- amy become more frequent over time as the immigrant group grows more _____________
heterogeneous (Sporlein et al. 2013)
As the prevalence of early marriage customs decreases over time, immigrants tend to become more likely to marry ___________.
exogamously (Sporlein et al. 2013)
