This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using crosssectional data on rural households … identified along two additional lines : remittances and migration history. Results show that individual occupational choice in … rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ : individual …

This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using crosssectional data on rural households … identified along two additional lines : remittances and migration history. Results show that individual occupational choice in … rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ : individual …

interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of …

find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of …