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 distribution further shows that the high-wage migrants experienced slower wage …

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new … generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio …-demographic policy changes, this cohort of rural-urban migrants have different migration motivations compared to their father …