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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328973
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Left-behind children and return migration in China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586038
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451220
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Rural-urban migration as a risk coping strategy: The role of income differentials
Démurger, Sylvie; Khelifa, Siwar; Rey, Béatrice - 2023
This paper investigates how rural-urban income differentials interact with the risk coping motive to shape households' migration behavior. Using a model of migration behavior under agricultural income risk, our theoretical results suggest that while income differentials remain crucial in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476333
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513137
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Left-behind children and return migration in China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333404
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498529
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449782
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Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
Démurger, Sylvie - 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/10013119639
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Earnings Differentials between the Public and the Private Sectors in China : Explaining Changing Trends for Urban Locals in the 2000s
Yang, Juan - 2014
This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068825