economic growth, yet, they are often blamed for reducing urban 'native' workers' employment opportunities, suppressing their … endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average … employment and insignificant impact on earnings of urban workers. When examine the impact on unskilled labours we once again find …

the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … reduces the employment level, the share of employment in the population, the hourly wage, the interindustry wage premium, and … or the rest of the world (ROW) reduced the employment level, hourly wage, and share of informal employment while …