Recent years have witnessed significant evolution in the structure and organization of China’s labor markets. While the majority of workers remain employed in public work units (state-owned enterprises and urban collectives), private sector employment in China hasexpanded significantly....

Despite ongoing restructuring of the Chinese economy, barriers to labor mobility and attendantstratification of China’s labor markets remain significant. Those barriers serve to reduce the efficiency of labor market allocations and accordingly inhibit wage equilibration and productivity...

We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional human capital agglomeration on labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional differentials in skill-based compensation, cost-of-living, amenities, and the like, model estimates indicate the...

Despite ongoing restructuring of the Chinese economy, barriers to labor mobility and attendant stratification of China?s labor markets remain significant. Those barriers serve to reduce the efficiency of labor market allocations and accordingly inhibit wage equilibration and productivity growth....

This study applies unique data from the 1990s period of economic liberalization in China to evaluate the effects of human capital spillovers on urbanization and regional agglomeration of human capital. We examine these effects via a utility maximizing directional migration model, which accounts...

This study seeks to distinguish among competing theories of urbanization in an explanation of recent, massive rural-to-urban migration in China. Specifically, the research evaluates whether Chinese urbanization following the 1990s liberalization of mobility and residential location restrictions...

We estimate a skill-based directional migration model to assess the effects of regional human capital agglomeration on labor migration in China. Upon accounting for regional differentials in skill-based compensation, cost-of-living, amenities, and the like, model estimates indicate the...