Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16–19 to rural villages to work and they spent …

Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent …

This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the elasticity demand for labor in the … infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the … that private-sector labor demand is very elastic, with elasticity estimates ranging between -3.1 and -5.3 …

induce migrations that would not take place in an individual framework. Using unique data for China on risk attitudes of …

induce migrations that would not take place in an individual framework. Using unique data for China on risk attitudes of …

induce migrations that would not take place in an individual framework. Using unique data for China on risk attitudes of …

induce migrations that would not take place in an individual framework. Using unique data for China on risk attitudes of …

induce migrations that would not take place in an individual framework. Using unique data for China on risk attitudes of …

allocation of labor; the hukou system remains in place, and 72 percent of China's population is still identified as rural hukou …Over the past few decades of economic reform, China's labor markets have been transformed to an increasingly market …-driven system. China has two segregated economies: the rural and urban. Understanding the shifting nature of this divide is probably …

This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant … private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state … the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic. We …