also suggest that China's household registration (Hukou) system prevents the mobility of urban residents more than it … in response to regional demand shifts between 2000 and 2005. Results from OLS regressions show that population changes of … groups. These findings explain increases in skill premia in coastal regions after China's entry into the WTO, but it does not …

residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find that these employers prefer migrant …

We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using …

rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the … advantage of variation in hukou status generated by individual-level changes over time. Unlike previous studies, we are able to … hukou "premium". For estimates that do not account for time-invariant individual characteristics, urban hukou holders earn …

structural characteristics of regions into account and investigate differences in labor demand responsiveness and their potential … findings point to substantially distinct labor demand responses to changes in output and wages among European countries and …

interpreted as a relative decrease of low-skilled labor demand. However, the effect of offshoring on relative labor demand is … be very heterogeneous across regional labor markets. We estimate the effects of offshoring to Eastern Europe and China on …

services is higher compared to other establishments. Furthermore, the main factors determining labor demand in this field are …

cease to be significant. This suggests that increase in labor demand push up wages in tight labor markets while the … adjustment occurs purely through quantities purely in slack labor markets. Hence the incidence of shifts in local labor demand …

has a local demand for non-tradable goods and the size of the non-tradable sector is directly dependent on the size of the … consumption by the local inhabitants. Depending on the preferences of the inhabitants this will increase demand for non …