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care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of …Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left …
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-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
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migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …-distance tradeoff ; rural-urban migration ; hukou system ; China …Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this …
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migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this … little with migration distance; it is slightly higher for female than male migrants; it is not affected by the migrant's age …
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-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
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The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the wage...
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Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China … and outside province. In addition, moving beyond one's home province has a strong deterrent effect on migration, analogous … to the "border effect" identified in international migration studies. We also explore the role of culture, institutional …
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