We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using …

scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the goods they help produce, contribute to their own demand. We examine … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitution of immigrants for natives; (ii) out-migration; and (iii) stimulation of labor demand. According to (iii), native wages …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant … differences in their status in the Chinese residential registration system (hukou) we find no earnings discrimination against …

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources …

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 …