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Intermarriage, language, and economic assimilation process: A case study of France

Meng, Xin; Meurs, Dominique - In: International Journal of Manpower 30 (2009) May, pp. 127-144

French language before migration than for those whose language skill is poor. This result seems to suggest that, perhaps …

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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints under Labour Market Discrimination

Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one;...

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Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers

Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

between rural-urban migration and urban native workers' labour market outcomes in Chinese cities. After controlling for the … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes. …

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The Dynamic Change in Wage Gap between Urban Residents and Rural Migrants in Chinese Cities

Zhang, Dandan; Meng, Xin; Wang, Dewen - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2010

Although a significant wage gap has been found in many previous studies between urban workers and rural migrants in Chinese cities, it is still not clear how such a wage gap may evolve over time. This paper uses both a dynamic wage decomposition method and economic assimilation model with pooled...

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Social Networks and Mental Health Problems: Evidence from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017

survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …

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Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes

Meng, Xin; Yamauchi, Chikako - 2015

growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during … which parents migrated away from home. By instrumenting this measure of parental migration with weather changes in their …

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Labour market impact of large scale internal migration on Chinese urban 'native' workers

Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2010

between rural-urban migration and urban native workers' labour market outcomes in Chinese cities. After controlling for the … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes. …

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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination

Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011

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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience

Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019

cities can mitigate these adverse mental health effects. Using a unique longitudinal survey data of Rural-to-Urban Migration …

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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

Giles, John T.; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2021

This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban...

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