China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas …. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately …’s Liberation Army are important career paths towards urbanisation and permanent migrants are much better-off then their …

economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes … migrants are changing as a result of government policies and the global financial crisis. More migrants than before find jobs … in medium and small size cities, often located in western and central China. Understanding the characteristics and …

migrants in most of the major receiving states of the EU, the status of the predominantly low-skilled sector-employed migrant …

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first … ties are measured by the closest family contact, while weak ties are determined by the fraction of migrants from the …

Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration … influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 …

This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …'s economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural migrants' earning differentials with urban … of education completed. Returns to formal schooling for migrants remained stable at approximately 3% and 5% throughout …

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 of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration …