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Do employees in the public sector still enjoy earnings advantages?
Yang, Juan; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - 2011
Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291942
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Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes
Meng, Xin; Yamauchi, Chikako - 2015
. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307375
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Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - 2013
This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328973
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Payments for ecological restoration and internal migration in China: The sloping land conversion program in Ningxia
Démurger, Sylvie; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
This paper analyzes the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331880
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Left-behind children and return migration in China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586038
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Social Networks and Mental Health Problems: Evidence from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually … survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653209
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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
in China (RUMiC), we find that network size matters significantly for migrant workers. Our preferred IV estimates suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012031226
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Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China : 1986-2000
Meng, Xin; Gong, Xiaodong; Wang, Youjuan - 2004
Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262179
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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert; Wang, Youjuan - 2005
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262183
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Stunting and selection effects of famine: a case study of the great Chinese famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - 2007
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
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