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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies

Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...

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Labor Market Developments in China: A Neoclassical View

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China: the classical view featuring a Lewis turning point in wage growth versus a neoclassical framework emphasizing rational choices of individuals and equilibrating forces of the...

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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 urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...

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Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007

Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes...

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Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...

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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...

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The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...

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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … interregional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that …

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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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