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Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews …, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life satisfaction could equally well be consequences, or …). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …
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This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …
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Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …
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rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the …
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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...
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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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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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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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The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
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One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …
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