Youth labor migration and its family setting, The Netherlands 1850–1940

3 January 1997

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in The History of the Family

Vol. 2 (4) , 507-526
https://doi.org/10.1016/s1081-602x(97)90027-0

Abstract

This article is based on the reconstructed life course patterns of about 1500 adolescent men and women, born between 1833 and 1912 in the Dutch province of Utrecht. The incidence of youth migration is investigated by sex, birth period, and birthplace. The influence of the family on the decision to migrate is analyzed with event history techniques. The results are evaluated in the context of regional customs related to the process of leaving home. A large number of persons, between 30 and 55 percent of all unmarried youths, participated in youth migration. However, family strategies were more directed toward keeping offspring from migrating than toward stimulating them to move.

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