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 … earnings and the sector (formal vs. informal) they work in with those of urban residents and urban migrants. Exploiting … differences in their status in the Chinese residential registration system (hukou) we find no earnings discrimination against …
