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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China

Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416955

Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China

Xing, Chunbing; Xu, Jianwei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of … China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimum wage data …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212563

Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China

Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - eSocialSciences - 2012

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393104

The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants

Xing, Chunbing; Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium …-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more …

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The Sustainability of Chinese Growth and the Aggregate Factor Substitution Elasticity

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - CESifo - 2012

than below one. We use time series data on labor’s share in GDP to estimate a substitution elasticity for China, finding … role of factor substitution in future Chinese growth. We argue that high growth in China can be supported in such a …

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Are migrants discriminated against in Chinese urban labour markets?

Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban …

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Regional variation of the minimum wages in China

Xing, Chunbing; Xu, Jianwei - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-22

This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of … China's minimum-wage policy and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimumwage data …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603744

China's higher education expansion and its labor market consequences

Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in …

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Migration, self-selection, and income distributions: Evidence from rural and urban China

Xing, Chunbing - 2010

As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...

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Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995 - 2007

Xing, Chunbing - 2010

that has caused the skill price to rise, especially in the earlier period. Another finding is that China's export share of … latter period from 2002 to 2007, highlighting the impact of China's entry into the WTO. …

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