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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
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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 …
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Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where …
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associated with higher SWB across such diverse groups as being a member of the communist party or a religious organization. China …
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In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
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Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …
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Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually … survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …
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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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This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
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