Introduction -- Rural Migration and Sectoral Earning Differences in Urban China -- A Solution to the Migrant Labor Shortage and Rural Labor Surplus in China -- Do Chinese Employers Discriminate against Females when Hiring Employees? -- An Empirical Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Urban...

Over the last thirty years, there have been significant changes in several empirical measures of local labor market monopsony power. A monopsonist has a profit incentive to offer lower wages to local workers. High skilled mobile workers can avoid these lower wages by moving to other more...