implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

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

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 …

This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's urban residents retire earlier than workers in many OECD countries …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

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. …

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …

China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and …

examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In …