Rural–urban migration flows are a crucial corollary of economic development. The adverse or beneficial effects of … internal migration, for sending as well as receiving areas, and the definition of optimal migration policies, have remained … the “household registration system” (hukou) acts as a strong constraint on individual migration. This paper aims to assess …

migration. My results suggest that the grain subsidy policy does keep farmers at the rural origin. …

2000, after 2000 migration's growth accelerated; during this same period the self employed subsector stagnated. The number … that the rise in wage-earning migration is mainly being driven by the younger cohorts. Our analysis also shows that the … rise of migration is happening in conjunction with a rising unskilled wage. …

of migration, and to examine the size and nature of the pool of potential rural–urban migrants. An attempt is also made … to project the rural and urban labour force and migration forward to 2020, on the basis of the 2005 1% Population Survey …

. Any attempt to identify the impact of parental migration on children's school performance may encounter the problem of … generation. Based on a bivariate probit model, the results show that compared to neither parents being migrants, migration of the … father reduces the rank of a child's math score by 8.37%, and migration of the mother reduces the rank by 23.30%. …

attributable to migration. Because the survey covers five cities, the results allow for an investigation regarding how much …

-to-urban migration in China as well as on economic efficiency and equality by reducing the expected benefits associated with migration. …

population, about 85.6 million, is due to rural–urban migration. Our findings suggest that rural–urban migration increased by two …