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Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China : Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants During 2002-2007
Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank) - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966823
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Job contact networks and wages of rural-urban migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792989
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Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu - 2014
Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064631
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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Long, Wenjin - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076858
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Where are migrants from? : inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China
Su, Yaqin; Tesfazion, Petros; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119601
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The role of China's household registration system in the urban-rural income differential
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest; Moon, Soojae - 2017
rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732057
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Where are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China
Su, Yaqin - 2017
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946597
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Hukou status and children's education in China
Sun, Yue; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2024
Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban …, creating a unique exogenous opportunity for children with urban fathers and rural mothers to obtain urban hukou. Using China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469974
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Hukou status and children's education in China
Sun, Yue; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2024
Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access … China's 2010 population census data, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to examine the impact of hukou status on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463706
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Understanding urban migration in Viet Nam : evidence from a micro-macro link
Vo, Huong - 2021
This paper focuses on the demographic transition from rural to urban areas in Viet Nam. An empirical framework is developed to measure the relative impact of location characteristics versus individual characteristics in determining the destination choices of migrants. Assuming that locational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493936