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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 … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607496
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688391
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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 … validate the arrival of the Lewis turning point in China, showing continuous and coordinated wage growth across rural and urban … markets in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764578
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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 … segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration … to 2007. Our results show that there is a significant increase in wages among both migrants and urban natives over this 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788728
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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
Giles, John T.; Mu, Ren - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078392
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279307
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693846
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566766
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240235
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A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy
Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761698