City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China

Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and diversified labor markets large cities help alleviate colocation problem of couples. Using data from China, we show gender wage gap among migrants significantly smaller larger cities, this mainly because have higher employer population densities. Large make women likely to be employed secure jobs after family migration. We find no alternative explanations correlation between size women’s relative wages.