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Are all migrants really worse off in urban labour markets? New empirical evidence from China
Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282494
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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416955
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Migration, Self-Selection, and Income Distributions: Evidence from Rural and Urban China
Xing, Chunbing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
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