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Social disadvantage and children's nutritional status in rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2020
children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316776
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Language premium myth or fact : evidence from migrant workers of Guangdong, China
Wei, Xiahai; Fang, Tony; Jiao, Yang; Li, Jiahui - 2019
Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995979
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Does being "left–behind" in childhood lead to criminality in adulthood? : evidence from data on rural-urban migrants and prison inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2021
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648892
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Does being "left-behind" in childhood lead to criminality in adulthood? Evidence from data on rural-urban migrants and prison inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2021
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324291
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Does Being "Left Behind" in Childhood Lead to Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2022
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084066
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Does being "left behind" in childhood lead to criminality in adulthood? Evidence from data on rural-urban migrants and prison inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2021
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million … children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. This paper uses survey and experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311367
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018
STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129939
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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data … ; migration decision ; segmentation ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124150
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China’s 'New Generation' Rural-Urban Migrants : Migration Motivation and Migration Patterns
Hu, Xiaochu - 2012
The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new … generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174544