Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple … intentions to return), among which are parents' concerns about the well-being of their left-behind children. We then propose two … role of left-behind children as a significant motive for return. First, left-behind children are found to draw their …