Baltagi, Badi H.; Deng, Ying; Ma, Xiangjun - 2017
This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their … employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours … contracts in the co-villager network increases the probability that a migrant accepts a contract-free job. We provide three …