China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on wages, wage spillovers, and employment. We …

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …

Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry …

agents care about household production or the income from a second job. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we adopt …

market over the past 40 years since China initiated its economic reforms and open-door policy in 1978. The results indicate …

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …