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Item Do wives work when husbands migrate? : an analysis of men's migration and women's labor force participation in Mexico(2005-05-21) Hamilton, Erin R., 1979-; Potter, Joseph E.A consistent finding of research on migrant-sending communities in Mexico is that when men migrate, women enter the paid labor force due to the space and demand created for her work in the absence of her husband (Crummet, 1987, 2001; Mummert, 1988; Kanaiaupuni 2000; Aysa and Massey 2004; D’Aubeterre 2005). Research exploring the increasing rates of women’s labor force participation over the past three decades in Mexico argues that women’s work and men’s migration are two parts of a strategic family response to poverty (Garcia and de Oliveira 1994; Parrado and Zenteno 2001). Despite their different perspectives, both agree that men’s migration is accompanied by women’s work. In this paper, I test whether that relationship exists in a national sample of Mexican households. My analysis shows that women’s work is intensified when men migrate from very rural and very urban places, but that the opposite is true in mid-sized cities