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Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China

Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - 2013

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

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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing; Zhang, Shuo - 2018

We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...

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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988 - 2007

Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - 2010

In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...

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Gender discrimination in Job ads: Theory and evidence

Kuhn, Peter; Shen, Kailing - 2010

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms' underlying gender preferences from firms' propensities to restrict their search to...

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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Démurger, Sylvie; Wang, Xiaoqian - 2016

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 …

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Age and Gender Profiling in the Chinese and Mexican Labor Markets: Evidence from Four Job Boards

Delgado Helleseter, Miguel; Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - 2016

-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and …

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Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System

Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - 2014

We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board serving private sector employers. We find that employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's...

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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - 2015

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. …

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Do Chinese employers avoid hiring overqualified workers? Evidence from an internet job board

Shen, Kailing; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2012

Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...

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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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. …

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