This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career in contemporary China …. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at the job entry that declines quickly in … economically more developed regions, where individual skills are highly rewarded in the labor market. Both male and female elite …

This paper estimates the return to an elite university education over a college graduate's career using the CHIP 2013 … data. We find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at job entry, but it declines quickly … developed regions, where individual skills are highly rewarded in the labor market. The initial elite premium and its subsequent …

Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …

This paper analyzes the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple …

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 …

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. …