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The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
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In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are … China, urban labor absorption efficiency is higher compared with the western and northern parts of China. Different …
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This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
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Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …
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As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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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. …
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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 …
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the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …
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