Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far partners live from their birthplaces. Recent life course research has shown that staying in, leaving or returning to the place of origin of one or both partners often reflects couples' work–family arrangements. This study contributes to this literature by examining the division of employment between partners and their relative contribution to household income according to migration distances. We analyse data from a national sample of economically active individuals living with heterosexual partners in Switzerland. When controlling for selectivity of migrant couples, the analysis confirms that long‐distance household migration benefits men's relative earnings. Among couples who migrated within the same region, employment is more equally shared between partners than among other couples, including nonmigrant couples. The relative distance to birthplaces also matters. Women's contribution to household income is higher among couples in which men migrated close to women's birthplace and is lower among couples where women migrated close to men's birthplace compared to women in other couples. This study suggests that future research on household migration should consider important social ties and places beyond the ‘last family move’ and the mechanisms by which these ties and places influence couples' decisions about where to live together and economic outcomes.

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瑞士异性夫妇距出生地的迁移距离及其与相对收入和就业份额的关系

在异性伴侣中，女性伴侣的就业可能会受到男性伴侣工作驱动的家庭迁移的影响。传统上，大多数研究都集中在夫妻形成后的移动距离上，而忽略了伴侣居住地距离出生地有多远。最近的生命历程研究表明，留在、离开或返回一方或双方的原籍地往往反映了夫妻的工作家庭安排。本研究通过考察伴侣之间的就业分工及其根据迁移距离对家庭收入的相对贡献，为该文献做出了贡献。我们分析了瑞士与异性伴侣生活的经济活跃个人的全国样本数据。在控制移民夫妇的选择性时，分析证实，长途家庭移民有利于男性的相对收入。在同一地区迁移的夫妇中，伴侣之间的就业分配比其他夫妇（包括非移民夫妇）之间的分配更加平等。与出生地的相对距离也很重要。与其他夫妇相比，男性迁移到女性出生地附近的夫妇中，女性对家庭收入的贡献较高，而女性迁移到男性出生地附近的夫妇中，女性对家庭收入的贡献较低。这项研究表明，未来对家庭移民的研究应考虑“最后一次家庭搬迁”之外的重要社会联系和地点，以及这些联系和地点影响夫妇关于共同居住地点和经济成果的决定的机制。