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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274569
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu-por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616
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Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788728
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262019
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268834
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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268387
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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents
Ao, Xiang; Jiang, Dawei; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of … to complement the traditional family care in rural China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401617
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The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants
Xing, Chunbing; Zhang, Junfu - 2013
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium …-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328880
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Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China's Rural-Urban Migrant Households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984490
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Labor market developments in China: A neoclassical view
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China … validate the arrival of the Lewis turning point in China, showing continuous and coordinated wage growth across rural and urban … markets in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278713