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). Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has gradually been relaxed since the 1980s, helping to explain an …Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools …, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those who have local registration (Hukou …
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migration patterns, but sometimes in unexpected ways. We find that as economic reforms in China deepened in the 1990s, the …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 …
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We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one … uncertainty experience an 18 percent increase in their internal in-migration rate – this result is driven by migrants who are "non-hukou …
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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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. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there …China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration … of a transition economy. We find that shifts in China's age distribution have generated significant changes in the …
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Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions...
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Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Our results reveal a significant negative impact. Consistent with...
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environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family …
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This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a disadvantage after they moved compared to both stayers and males. It employs panel data techniques to take account of unobserved heterogeneity. I find that migrant women after...
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