This paper relies on recent proprietary data from the People's Republic of China's (PRC) poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC's minimum living standard assistance (MLSA) program is...

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from the People's Republic of China's (PRC) poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on internal labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via the PRC's minimum living standard assistance (MLSA) program is...

This paper relies on recent proprietary data from China's poor rural minority areas to examine the importance of credit constraints on rural-urban labor migration. Specifically, a liquidity shock via China's minimum living security allowance (MLSA) program is decomposed into its direct and...

Access to external financing is a major obstacle for starting a new business across various country contexts. Ethnic minorities, in particular, tend to face more extreme financial constraints, although the linkages between ethnicity, finance and entrepreneurship has never been previously studied...

This paper examines minimum wage effects on workers' wages in China's ethnic minority urban areas using publicly available minimum wage data combined with proprietary household data. The identification strategy relies on a recent estimator developed in Powell (2015) capable of studying the...

This paper examines the impacts of migration and migrants' remittances on household income in China's rural minority areas using recent proprietary household data. Treating migrants' remittances as a potential substitute for income, the results reveal that migration significantly boosts income...

Participation in the informal economy has skyrocketed in China, coinciding with emerging labour markets that are segmented along lines of ethnicity, gender and migrant status. While a large body of literature examines migrant and female outcomes in the labour market, minority outcomes are much...