labour market returns for rural migrants in China and sheds light on the potential underlying mechanisms of these effects. An … influence migrants’ labour market returns, we find that minimum wages tend to increase rural migrants’ working time but have no …

. Rural migrants are set to play a key role in compensating for future labor shortages, but inequality is a major issue …. Evidence shows that rural migrants have low-paying and undesirable jobs in urban labor markets, which points to inefficient …

. Rural migrants are set to play a key role in compensating for future labor shortages, but inequality is a major issue …. Evidence shows that rural migrants have low-paying and undesirable jobs in urban labor markets, which points to inefficient …

assimilating rural migrants into urban Chinese cities. These findings are particularly important now, as both the Chinese central … ever-growing influx of rural migrants to urban areas. …

In Chinese cities, rural migrants on average are less educated and poorer than the urban locals. Migration is costly …, especially for those who choose to move to provinces faraway from their hometowns. A larger fraction of the rural migrants are … jobs or to start businesses. We studied the choice of self-employment of rural migrants in Beijing, using a migrant dataset …