In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas …. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately …'s Liberation Army are important career paths towards urbanisation and permanent migrants are much better-off then their …

Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually … to what extent city social networks alleviate mental health problems among these migrants. Using the longitudinal migrant … survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …

-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower … the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of … schooling for migrants …

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 … on the sample of migrants who originally started as wage workers in urban areas and currently are not in their first jobs …

married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in …Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides …

This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their … possible explanations on how networks influence migrants' contract decisions: job referral mechanism, limited information on …-sample analysis, we also find that the effects are larger for migrants whose jobs were introduced by their co-villagers, male migrants …

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self …-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI …

Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration … influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 …

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 …

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 distribution further shows that the high-wage migrants experienced slower wage …