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Migration and families left behind : families that stay behind when a member migrates do not clearly benefit
Démurger, Sylvie - 2015
About a billion people worldwide live and work outside their country of birth or outside their region of birth within their own country. Labor migration is conventionally viewed as economically benefiting the family members who are left behind through remittances. However, splitting up families...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430776
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Payments for ecological restoration and rural labor migration in China: The Sloping Land Conversion Program in Ningxia
Démurger, Sylvie; Wan, Haiyuan - HAL - 2012
This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598205
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212570
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251787
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Volunteer and satisfied? Rural households’ participation in a payments for environmental services programme in Inner Mongolia
Démurger, Sylvie; Pelletier, Adeline - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2015
Using survey data from Inner Mongolia, this paper explores the role of stakeholder engagement in the implementation of the Sloping Land Conversion Programme (SLCP), a payments for environmental services programme designed to restore forest in degraded land. Based on the idea that volunteerism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251788
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201854
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201855
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Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2011
This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple model that …, China) in fall 2008. We first use a discrete-time proportional hazard model to estimate the determinants of migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318149
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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011
rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323941
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Earnings Differentials between the Public and Private Sectors in China: Exploring Changes for Urban Local Residents in the 2000s
Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi; Yang, Juan - HAL - 2012
This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323945