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This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The paper focuses on four issues: the … household registration system in China, the profile of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the … interaction between migration and labor market evolution, with special reference to labor market segregation, labor market …
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invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … adaptés et inventés de nouveau par les réseaux de la migration transnationale dans un monde globalisé. Il n'y a aucune preuve …
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measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk …
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Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As …
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with the OLS estimation. These results are consistent with household migration behavior in the presence of significant cost … of migration, and credit market imperfection. …
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survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …
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that young farmers (age 16-44) are not affected in their migration decisions by land loss through requisition, while some …
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This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the … migration outflows, thus indicating that the facilitation of local employment through economic integration outweighs the … central research question, we see a positive effect of out-migration on educational attainment in the source region …
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This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …
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cities can mitigate these adverse mental health effects. Using a unique longitudinal survey data of Rural-to-Urban Migration …
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