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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
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 …
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Labor market dynamics in urban China and the role of the state sector
Feng, Shuaizhang; Guo, Naijia - 2019
This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on the dynamics of the Chinese urban labor market. Using longitudinal monthly panel data, we document very low dynamics in the labor market, especially in the state sector. We develop and calibrate an equilibrium search and matching model...
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