The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data … sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market … segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration …

endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …Hundreds of millions of rural migrants have moved into Chinese cities since the early 1990s contributing greatly to … the labour market segregation between the migrants and urban natives, and partially due to the complementarities between …

In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed … (population effect). Although sector allocation is extremely contrasted, with very few migrants in the public sector and very few …

workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban … migrants). We find that both rural and urban migrants are discriminated out of jobs with formal labour contracts. Results also … suggest that urban migrants are compensated for working in the informal sector by earning higher wages. There is evidence …

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 …