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...

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...

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...

Using original survey data from China, we estimate a discrete duration model to study the reemployment of urban workers who lost jobs during China's major restructuring of the state sector in the late 1990s. Using an exogenous measure of social networks, the number of relatives living in the...

Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable...

This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on homeowners' labor force participation. Using the average housing capital gains of other homes in the same community as an instrument for the housing capital gains of a given...

In this paper, we discuss the problems about the statistical data of sectoral labor forces in China and recalculate the agricultural labor forces with a robust method. The core issue is to take the rural migrant workers into consideration and to exclude the size of rural migrant workers who come...