This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using cross-sectional data on rural households for the year 2007. A switching probit model is used to estimate the impact of belonging to a migrant-sending household on the individual occupational choice categorized in four...

This paper examines the impacts of geopolitical risk on the dynamic connectedness between a country’s equity market and the global agricultural commodity market around the world. We show that the financialization of agricultural commodities is widespread. Overall geopolitical risk negatively...

Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese...