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 …

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 …

Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry … integration among migrants, one of the most disadvantaged groups in developing countries …

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 …

migrants in most of the major receiving states of the EU, the status of the predominantly low-skilled sector-employed migrant …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …