This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in …-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project (CHIP), reveal that rural migrants become self-employed to avoid low … type of employment and residence status) shows that higher hourly wages of paid and self-employed urbanites over migrants …

Although a significant wage gap has been found in many previous studies between urban workers and rural migrants in … (CHIPS) of 1999 and 2002 to investigate the change in the wage gap between urban workers and rural migrants over time and its … and rural migrants across the two surveyed years in Chinese cities, mainly caused by the decline in the return to …

The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We … dataset that allows us to document changing wage inequality among migrants and among urban natives between 2002 and 2007. We … find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007, whereas it increased among urban …

The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We … dataset that allows us to document changing wage inequality among migrants and among urban natives between 2002 and 2007. We … find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007, whereas it increased among urban …

The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using … data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly … between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the wage distribution further shows that the high-wage migrants experienced slower wage …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …

Hundreds of millions of rural migrants have moved into Chinese cities since the early 1990s contributing greatly to … endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average … the labour market segregation between the migrants and urban natives, and partially due to the complementarities between …