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endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …
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China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China …
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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 …
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This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI …
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subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we …
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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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influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …
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The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China …
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its properties and provide identification and estimation strategies. Using data on internal migration in China, we …
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