Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …

How does a relaxation of migration restrictions affect labor-market outcomes of incumbent migrants? In this paper, we … answer this question by studying a significant internal migration policy change in China: the 2014 hukou reform. This reform … substantially removed the migration barriers of cities with a population below 5 million (non-megacities) but kept the migration …

through official or unofficial migration, despite various obstacles to labour mobility, including the registration system and …

-to-urban migration in China. Specifically, the research evaluates whether Chinese urbanization following the 1990s liberalization of … data set to estimate skill-based selection of Chinese migrants in the context of a utility-maximizing directional migration …

' migration behavior. Using a model of migration behavior under agricultural income risk, our theoretical results suggest that … while income differentials remain crucial in determining the migration decision, they are additionally determined by the … migration as a risk coping mechanism is lower for households with a negative expected urban-to-rural income difference. Moreover …

local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China …