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 …

residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … outspoken in middle and low-ranking cities in 2018. However, rural to urban migrants living in high-ranking cities had a …

household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural …

household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural …

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 …