This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data … price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply … migration mostly benefits low- productivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations …

This report summarizes the characteristics of migration in the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its reforms and … opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … interregional migration. Facing the challenges of fast urbanization and growing urban diseases, local governments still rely on the …

China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium …-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more …

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI …

This study assesses the empirical relevance of the Harris-Todaro model at high levels of urbanization a feature that …

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new … generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio …

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …