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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2015
-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014005
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Where are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China
Su, Yaqin - 2017
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946597
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Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China : Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants During 2002-2007
Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank) - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966823
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Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064631
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Social-Family Network and Self-Employment : Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu - 2014
this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … the credibility of the IV by emphasizing the unique institutional context of rural-urban migration in China and focusing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068694
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Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank) - 2014
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068768