Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this …. Using recent survey data, we first estimate an individual's expected income in each potential destination city using a semi … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the … distribution of long-term earnings. -- Earnings inequality ; covariance structure of earnings ; China …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … most of them focus on income or earnings inequality. In this paper, we investigate the consumption disparity between urban … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents’ job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …'s health, whilst maternal job loss has no significant effect. The rationale behind the findings is that the income loss …

use the Chinese Household Income Project dataset and the Rural to Urban Migration in China dataset to construct a unique …