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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 urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...
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Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the earnings gap. Using multiple waves of data from the...
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Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate … that young farmers (age 16-44) are not affected in their migration decisions by land loss through requisition, while some …
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Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …
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Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left … health care and nutrition; on the other hand, the migration necessarily reduces the amount of time the children have to take …
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and outside province. In addition, moving beyond one's home province has a strong deterrent effect on migration, analogous … to the "border effect" identified in international migration studies. We also explore the role of culture, institutional …
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that short-term migration by males reduces the probability of intergenerational persistence by 20% in rural India … paper studies the effect of short-term internal migration experience on the intergenerational persistence of industry upon a … between the migrant's savings, skill or any other productive asset accumulation during migration and the decision to work upon …
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While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
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potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI … differential, which in turn is used to model the employment choice. The procedure is extended to account for migration selectivity …
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The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the wage...
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