examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In … into poverty. -- dynamic binary response models ; control function approach ; migration ; poverty-persistence ; rural China …

Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural … large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and second, it explores the evolution of the rural pension system in China over the …

demand for migrant labor. By early 2010, abundant evidence pointed to scarcity in China's labor market, as labor demand was …

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … individuals in the informal sector rely on family support in old age and have much longer working lives. Gender differences in age …

facilitate longer working lives for both men and women …This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between …

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

This paper uses a unique panel of data from rural China to analyze the impact of expanding connections to off …

Using original survey data from China, we estimate a discrete duration model to study the reemployment of urban workers … who lost jobs during China's major restructuring of the state sector in the late 1990s. Using an exogenous measure of … unemployment subsidies reduces the probability of reemployment within a year substantially (by 34 percent) for men. Unlike men …

fail. Using a unique dataset from a recent household survey conducted in urban China, we find evidence that private …