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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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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013

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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In search of gender bias in household resource allocation in rural China

Song, Lina - 2008

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …

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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility: evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - 2008

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...

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Life satisfaction in urban China: components and determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2008

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …

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Social protection and migration in China: what can protect migrants from economic uncertainty?

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2008

Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle …

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Growing out of poverty: trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988 - 2002

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income …

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The economics of communist party membership: the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition

Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008

surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …

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Internal finance and growth: microeconometric evidence on Chinese firms

Guariglia, Alessandra; Liu, Xiaoxuan; Song, Lina - 2008

Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...

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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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