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 …

China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium …-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more …

This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China … validate the arrival of the Lewis turning point in China, showing continuous and coordinated wage growth across rural and urban … markets in China. …

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …

surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …

This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …

pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and … show that a reasonable amount of UC may reduce informality, while larger amounts of UC induce large disincentives to go …- conceived UC system. We show that UC finance based on payroll taxes is likely to entail an excess level of informality resulting …

size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality. …